Cocke v. Brogan & Thorn
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Ejectment, determined in Pulaski, in January, 1844, before the Hon. John J. Clendenin, one of the circuit judges. Ann E. Cocke a minor, by her guardian, A. Fowler, sued Hugh Brogan, as tenant in possession of the premises, to recover certain lots or parcels of land in the county of Pulaski, and city of Little Rock.
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Ejectment, determined in Pulaski, in January, 1844, before the Hon. John J. Clendenin, one of the circuit judges. Ann E. Cocke a minor, by her guardian, A. Fowler, sued Hugh Brogan, as tenant in possession of the premises, to recover certain lots or parcels of land in the county of Pulaski, and city of Little Rock. At the term to which the original writ was returnable, Thorn appeared in the circuit court, and as the person through whom the. defendant, Brogan, claims title to the premises in question, was on his motion made co-defendant. And thereupon, the defendants pleaded jointly the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the court,
Ringo C. J.
Upon the facts thus presented by the record, the plaintiff by her assignment of errors, questions, First, The correctness of the opinion of the court, excluding from the jury the said deed of Roswell Beebe and wife, to Ashley; and Second, The opinion of the court, instructing the jury to to find for the defendants “as in case of nonsuit.”
To the deed of Beebe and wife, to Ashley, there is no subscribing witness; but it was duly acknowledged by all of the parties to it, before a justice of the peace in and for the county of Pulaski, in which the lands thereby conveyed…
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