Bradshaw v. Ashley
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hearing on an appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on the verdict of a jury, in an action of ejectment.
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Hearing on an appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on the verdict of a jury, in an action of ejectment. The Court in its opinion stated the case as follows: The suit here is an action of ejectment instituted in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia by the appellee, Nehemiah B. Ashley, as plaintiff, against the appellant, Aaron Bradshaw, as defendant, to recover the possession of an undivided interest in certain lots of ground in Square 939, in the city of Washington. The origin of the controversy is due to an apparent anomaly in the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Morris
There are eleven assignments of error, which, in view of the criticism upon them aud of greater facility in the disposal of them, we may set forth in full. The court below erred, it is said:
“ 1. In admitting the several items of evidence referred to *502in respect of said pencil numbers of said lots and in denying defendant’s motion in respect of the same.
“2. In admitting in evidence said De Kraft plat book.
“3. In admitting in evidence the alleged subdivision of said square.
“4. In granting said instruction to the jury prayed by ' the plaintiff.
“5. In repeating said instruction in the charge to…
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