Armstrong v. Morrill
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the District Court of the United.States for West Virginia; the case having been thus: Lot.M. Morrill brought ejectment, on the 15th of April, 1857, in the District Court for the Western District.of Virginia (now the court below), both having circuit court jurisdiction, against Armstrong and others, to recover 1500 acres ofjand.
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Error to the District Court of the United.States for West Virginia; the case having been thus: Lot.M. Morrill brought ejectment, on the 15th of April, 1857, in the District Court for the Western District.of Virginia (now the court below), both having circuit court jurisdiction, against Armstrong and others, to recover 1500 acres ofjand. In one count Morrill alleged that he was possessed of it when the defendants wrongfully entered; in another, that James Dundas and Benjamin Kngler were so possessed. An amended declaration alleged, in its first count, the possession to have been jointly in…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
Absolute title and the right of possession are claimed by the plaintiff to the tract of land in controversy, and the actual possession of the same being in the four defendants named in the declaration, he brought an action of ejectment against them to recover possession, of the tract. . He alleges in the first count of the original declaration that on the day therein named he was possessed in fee simple of the tract; that on the -eighth of October following the defendants entered into the premises, and that they unlawfully withhold from him the described tract. Quite unlike’ that, the second…
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