Bacon v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN. Ejectment. Plea, the general issue. Judgment for the plaintiff. Defendant sued out this writ of error. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Lamar
This is a.suit in ejectment, brought in the court below by the defendant in error, a Wisconsin corporation authorized by the laws of that State to purchase and hold real estate, against the plaintiffs in error, citizens of Michigan, to recover possession of certain real estate in the city of Niles, in the last named State, together with damages for its retention.
The defendants pleaded the general issue. The case was tried by the court without the intervention of the jury, which, by the written request of counsel for defendants, made a special finding of facts in accordance with §§ 649, 700,…
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