Chandler v. Calumet & Hecla Mining Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE. UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN. Tms^was an action of ejectment brought by the plaintiff in error, a citizen of Illinois, against the ‘ defendant in error, a Michigan corporation, to recover a tract of forty acres of land in Houghton County, Michigan, particularly described as the southeast quarter of the northwest, quarter of section 23, township 56 north,.range 33 west.
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE. UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN. Tms^was an action of ejectment brought by the plaintiff in error, a citizen of Illinois, against the ‘ defendant in error, a Michigan corporation, to recover a tract of forty acres of land in Houghton County, Michigan, particularly described as the southeast quarter of the northwest, quarter of section 23, township 56 north,.range 33 west. Both parties to the controversy derive their title from the State of Michigan, the plaintiff under a patent of the State issued to him on November 3, 1887, and the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Jackson
The plaintiff has assigned for errors (1) that the trial court improperly excluded the oral evidence offered to show that the demanded premises were in fact swamp lands when the act of September 28, 1850, was passed; and (2) that the court should have directed a verdict for the plaintiff instead of for the defendant.
In support of the first proposition, the plaintiff in error relies upon the case of Railroad Company v. Smith, 9 Wall. 95, in ivhich oral evidence was admitted to establish the fact that the parcel of land there in dispute Avas swamp and ov>erfloAved land at the date of the sAvamp…
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