Dickerson v. Colgrove
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Michigan. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Swayne
This is an action of ejectment brought by Dickerson and Wheeler. The latter died during the progress of the suit. The parties agreed in writing to submit the case to the court without the intervention of a jury. The court found the facts. So far as it is necessary to state them, they may be thus summarized: Mieajah Chauncey owned the.land in controversy. .He died on the-day of February, 1853, leaving two children, Edmund Chauncey and Sarah Kline. They were his only heirs-at-law. He is the common source of title of all the parties in this litigation. On the 8d of March, 1853, John Kline and…
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