Dixon v. Doe
Mississippi Supreme Court
James B. Poeter instituted this action of ejectment in the circuit court of Amite county, to recover the possession of lots No. 3 and 4, on fractional section 40, S. 2, R. 2, east, in the district of land subject to sale at Washington, Mississippi. The declaration was filed at the March term, 1844, and served on George W. Faxon, he being tenant in possession.
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James B. Poeter instituted this action of ejectment in the circuit court of Amite county, to recover the possession of lots No. 3 and 4, on fractional section 40, S. 2, R. 2, east, in the district of land subject to sale at Washington, Mississippi. The declaration was filed at the March term, 1844, and served on George W. Faxon, he being tenant in possession. It was ordered by the court, by consent of both parties and their attorneys, that Archibald Dixon, who claimed title to the premises in controversy, be made defendant in place of the defendant, Richard Fenn. Dixon then entered into the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clayton
'This was an action of ejectment in the circuit court of Amite county. On the trial, the plaintiff gave in evidence a patent for the land in dispute, bearing date in 1845, and there rested his case.
The defendant offered to read in proof a sheriff’s tax sale deed for the same land, bearing date in 1829, and offered also to read various certificates of the register of the land-office at Washington, Mississippi, in regard1' to payments for the same land, some of them bearing date as far back as 1815. These were all excluded by the court, at the instance of the plaintiff. A motion was made for a…
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