M'Iver's Lessee v. Walker
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court for the District of East Tennesee. This was an ejectment brought in that Court by the plaintiff in error against the defendants.
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Error to the Circuit Court for the District of East Tennesee. This was an ejectment brought in that Court by the plaintiff in error against the defendants. Upon the first trial of the cause, a judg-. ment was rendered in the Circuit Court in favour of the defendants, and upon thát judgment a writ of error was taken out, and the judgment reversed by this Court, at February Term, 1815; and the causé was sent back to be tried according to certain directions, prescribed by this Court. As the opinion given by this Court upon the reversal of the first judgment contains a statement of the facts…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Marshall
delivered the opi- March im. nioaof the Court.
*452The Cotirt has re-examined the opinion which it gave5 when this cause was formerly 'before it, and has not perceived any reason for changing that opin¡on< Nor do the new facts introduced into the cause, in any material degree, vary it. if there had been a settled course of decisions in Tennessee upon their local laws, different from the judgment pronounced by this Court, we should not hesitate to follow those decisions. But, upon an examination of the cases cited at the bar, we do not perceive that such is the fact. The judgment of the Circuit…
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