Lessee of Coons v. Gallaher
Supreme Court of the United States
WRIT of error to the Supreme Court of the State of Ohio, to reverse the judgment- of that Court. The original action of ejectment was brought in the Court of Common Pleas of Clinton county, and taken thence by appeal to the Supreme Court; where it was tried, and a verdict and judgment given for the plaintiffs, at May term, 1833. After-wards, a new trial was ordered; and on a ease stated, a judgment was rendered by the Court in favour of the defendant.
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WRIT of error to the Supreme Court of the State of Ohio, to reverse the judgment- of that Court. The original action of ejectment was brought in the Court of Common Pleas of Clinton county, and taken thence by appeal to the Supreme Court; where it was tried, and a verdict and judgment given for the plaintiffs, at May term, 1833. After-wards, a new trial was ordered; and on a ease stated, a judgment was rendered by the Court in favour of the defendant. The plaintiff prosecuted this writ of error. The decision of the Court having been given on the question of jurisdiction, those arguments are…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Taney
This case arises upon an action of ejectment, which was decided in the Supreme Court of the State of Ohio, for the county of Clinton; and being brought here from a State Court, we have no authority to revise the judgment,- unless jurisdiction is given by the 25th section of the act of 1789.
The land is situated in what is usually called the Virginia military district, and, at the trial, both parties derived title-under the act of Congress of March 2, 1807, which was passed for the purpose of extending the time for locating Virginia military land warrants, between the Little Miami and Sciota…
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