Green v. Watkins
Supreme Court of the United States
A writ of right brings into controversy only the titles of the parties to the suit, andis acomparison of those titles; and either party may therefore prove any fact which defeats the tide of the other, or shows it never had a legal exisience, or has been parted with.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Story
The record in this case presents a great variety of facts, out of which several important questions have ariseü; but as the merits of the cause may, in the opinion of the Court, be completely disposed of by . the decision of a single point, the facts which illustrate that point will alone be mentioned.
This is a writ of right, originally brought by the plaintiff in error, against the defendant in error, to recover*a certain tract of land in Kentucky, described in the writ. Issue being joined on the mere right ' between the parties, the demandant, to sustain his suit, gave in evidence a patent…
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