Burnett v. Caldwell
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, the case being this: In 1850, one Rogers being in possession of certain premises for some years, sold them to persons from whom they passed to the Rome Female College. And this college executed a somewhat peculiar deed conveying them to Caldwell. Caldwell being thus in possession and claiming title, sold them in January, 1864, to a certain Yliet.
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Error to the District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, the case being this: In 1850, one Rogers being in possession of certain premises for some years, sold them to persons from whom they passed to the Rome Female College. And this college executed a somewhat peculiar deed conveying them to Caldwell. Caldwell being thus in possession and claiming title, sold them in January, 1864, to a certain Yliet. Vliet paid him $4000, and gave him two promissory notes, each for $7000, payable in the course of the year at dates fixed. Caldwell at the same time executed to Yliet a title bond in…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Swayne
This is a writ of error to the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Georgia. The suit was an action of ejectment, prosecuted by the defendant in error to recover possession of the premises described in his declaration. The view which we take of the case renders it unnecessary to consider several of the exceptions which are found in the record. The facts as they appear, and which are undisputed, are as follows:
Caldwell was in possession, claiming title. On the 26tb of January, 1864, he sold to Vliet, who paid him $4000, and executed to him two promissory notes, each…
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