Love v. Simm's Lessee

22 U.S. 515 (1824)

9 Wheat. 515

LOVE, Plaintiff in Error,

v.

SIMMS'S lessee, Defendant in Error.

Supreme Court of United States.

February 23, 1824.

March 10, 1824.

This cause was argued by Mr. Eaton, for the plaintiff in error,[a] and Mr. Harper, for the defendant in error.

This cause comes up from the Circuit Court for the district of West Tennessee. The judgment in that Court is in favour of the plaintiff in ejectment, and error is brought to reverse that judgment, on the ground that the Court below instructed the jury that the plaintiff there had the better title, and ought to recover. The facts of…