Ward v. Cochran
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE .CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEBRASKA. This was an action of ejectment brought at the November term, 1887, in the Circuit Court of' the United States for the District of Nebraska, by Seth E. Ward, a citizen of the State of Missouri, against. Elmer Gf.
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ERROR TO THE .CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEBRASKA. This was an action of ejectment brought at the November term, 1887, in the Circuit Court of' the United States for the District of Nebraska, by Seth E. Ward, a citizen of the State of Missouri, against. Elmer Gf. Cochran, a citizen of the State of Nebraska, to recover the possession of twenty acres of land situated in the suburbs of the city of Omaha, and described as ihe west one-half of the northeast one-quarter of section. 4, township 15 north, range 13 east, in Douglas County, Nebraska. In pursuance of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shiras
Objection is made that the bills of exception were not allowed and signed either at the trial or the judgment term, and the case of Müller v. Ehlers, 91 U. S. 249, is cited to show that wo cannot consider them for that reason.
From the record, it does indeed appear that the bills of exception were not allowed and signed during the term at which the judgment was rendered, but it also appears that, at said term, an order .was entered stating that, inasmuch as the bills of exception could not be completed at that term, the time for preparing and presenting them. was extended till February 1,…
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