Williams v. Morrison
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Missouri
At Law. Replevin suit for 10,000 granite paving blocks seized under a writ of replevin, and delivered to the plaintiffs upon their giving the statutory bond. A writ bad been duly issued from the office of the clerk of the circuit court of Wayne county, Missouri, a court of general jurisdiction.
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At Law. Replevin suit for 10,000 granite paving blocks seized under a writ of replevin, and delivered to the plaintiffs upon their giving the statutory bond. A writ bad been duly issued from the office of the clerk of the circuit court of Wayne county, Missouri, a court of general jurisdiction. It described the blocks to be seized as “all the granite paving blocks now on” a described lot, “except a certain pile of granite blocks at a certain switch,” which had. been theretofore re-plevied, and stated that the blocks not excepted numbered “about twenty-five hundred.” The writ in this court…
1Opinion of the Court
Tbbat, J.,
(charging jury orally.) The case you are now called upon to consider differs in many aspects from those ordinarily presented to a jury. This property, — I mean the real estate, including this mine, — it seems, belonged to Mr. Lawrence, either individually, or to him and Mr. Morrison as tenants in common. As to the use of said property, either one could give a license. It did not require their joint assent thereto.
It would appear from tho testimony as offered that there was some proposition ponding for a lease of this property to several parties, one of whom was Mr. Williams. That…
2Cited by1 opinion
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