Addison v. Crow & Jarvis

Judge Marshall

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

This was an action of ejectment brought for the recovery of two adjoining lots in the town of Hardinsburg. The plaintiff declared in two counts, one on the joint demise of Crow and Jarvis, the other on the separate demise of Crow. Addison and Calhoun were made defendants in the place of the casual ejector; and a verdict and judgment having been rendered against them, they have appealed.

On the trial of the cause, it was proved that, in April, 1832, an execution upon a judgment of the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of…