Catlin v. Jackson ex dem. Gratz
Court for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors
THIS was an action of ejectment, and was tried at the Otsego circuit, in June, 1806, when a verdict was take«; subject to the opinion of the supreme court on a case’ stating the evidence produced at the trial, with liberty to either party to turn the same into a special 1 verdict.
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THIS was an action of ejectment, and was tried at the Otsego circuit, in June, 1806, when a verdict was take«; subject to the opinion of the supreme court on a case’ stating the evidence produced at the trial, with liberty to either party to turn the same into a special 1 verdict. In May term, 1807, the supreme court, after hearing the case argued, gave judgment for the plaintiff below and the defendant, the present plaintiff in error, having put the case into form of a special verdict, brought . a writ of error to this court, in order to reverse the judgment of the supreme court. (See 2…
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
The questions arising in this case, come up on a special verdict, on which a judgment has been rendered in the supreme court, for the defendant in error, the lessor of the plaintiff, in the court below.
In examining the errors assigned, which- in their form are general, the record only affords the test of their existence ; and as, in this case, they are assigned on the matter of the special verdict, it will be necessary to af*546tend to the points found by it," from which it was imposed on the court below, to determine, as a question of law, arising upon the facts found, whether a…
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