Craig v. Rowland
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hearing on an appeal by the plaintiffs from a judgment on a verdict directed by the trial court in an action of ejectment.
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Hearing on an appeal by the plaintiffs from a judgment on a verdict directed by the trial court in an action of ejectment. The Court in its opinion stated the case as follows; This is an action of ejectment brought to recover all of square |No. 747, in the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, and in which square the plaintiffs claim the fee simple estate, and of which they were heretofore, to wit, on the 3d of January, 1876, lawfully possessed, when the defendant" who is now in the actual occupation theref, entered the same and unlawfully ejected the plaintiffs therefrom, and…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Alvey
Upon the devise for life in joint tenancy to Mrs. Burgess and her son, with limitation in fee to the children or lawful *413descendants of the children of the son, no question is presented of the application of the Rule in Shelley’s Case. That rule, it is conceded, has no application to this case, and therefore it is not pretended by the defendant that the father, John E. Craig, took under the devise to himself and his mother more than a life estate in the property devised. Daniel v. Whartenby, 11 Wall. 639. Upon the death of Mrs. Burgess in 1843, John E. Craig, her son and joint devisee for…
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