Crane v. Lessee of Morris
Supreme Court of the United States
THIS case came before the court on a writ of error to the circuit court of the United States for the southern district of New York. In that court, the defendants in error instituted an action of ejectment to recover frota the defendant a tract of land situated in the town of Carmel, in the county of Putnam, in the state. of New York.
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THIS case came before the court on a writ of error to the circuit court of the United States for the southern district of New York. In that court, the defendants in error instituted an action of ejectment to recover frota the defendant a tract of land situated in the town of Carmel, in the county of Putnam, in the state. of New York. The title exhibited by the plaintiff on the trial in the circuit court, was the same with that, an abstract of which is given in the case of Carver v. Jackson, ex dem. of Astor et al. 4 Peters, 1. It was founded on a patent from William the third to Adolph.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Story
Many of the questions which have been discussed in this case arose in the suit of Carver v. Jackson, ex dem. of Astor et al., 4 Peters’s Rep. 1; which was founded upon the same title, and substantially upon the same evidence as is presented in the present record. As upon a deliberate review we are entirely satisfied with the opinion and judgment pronounced on that occasion (which was indeed most thoroughly and anxiously considered), we do not propose. to go at large into the reasoning now; but to confine ourselves to the new grounds of argument, which have been so earnestly pressed upon the…
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