Lessee of Mercer v. Selden
Supreme Court of the United States
This case was brought up by writ of error from the Cirbuit Court of the United States for the eastern district of Virginia. The facts in the case are stated in the commencement of the opinion of the court, which the reader is requested to turn to and peruse', before referring to the sketch of the arguments of counsel.
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This case was brought up by writ of error from the Cirbuit Court of the United States for the eastern district of Virginia. The facts in the case are stated in the commencement of the opinion of the court, which the reader is requested to turn to and peruse', before referring to the sketch of the arguments of counsel. The decision of the court being made to rest entirely upon the statute.of limitations, all those branches of the argument relating to the invalidity of the deed from Selden and wife to Dr. Mackay, on account- of its not having been read to her, and of a defect in…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Mr. Justice McLEAN.
This case is brought before this court, from the Circuit Court of the eastern district of Virginia, by a writ of error. .
An action of ejectment was commenced by the lessors of the plaintiff, to recover possession of certain undivided interests in a tract of land in Loudon county.
On the trial, the jury found a statement of facts, on which the questions of law mainly arise.
Mary Mason Selden was seised and possessed in fee simple of certain tracts of land in the. county of Loudon, estimated to contain four thousand acres, a part of…
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