Lamaster v. Keeler
Supreme Court of the United States
Ejectment. Judgment for the plaintiff.. Defendant sued out this writ of error. The case, as stated by the court, is as follows. This case comes before us from the Circuit Court for the District of Nebraska. It is an action of ejectment to recover a parcel of land in the city of Lincoln, State of Nebraska.
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Ejectment. Judgment for the plaintiff.. Defendant sued out this writ of error. The case, as stated by the court, is as follows. This case comes before us from the Circuit Court for the District of Nebraska. It is an action of ejectment to recover a parcel of land in the city of Lincoln, State of Nebraska. The plaintiff below, the defendant in error here, traces title to the premises from a purchaser at a sale under an execution issued upon a judgment, extended by the clerk of the court so as to include certain sureties, and among them the defendant below. The contention of the defendant is,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
The contention of the plaintiff below, the defendant in error here, that the act of Nebraska of February 23, 1875, governed proceedings for the stay of money judgments in the Federal courts of the Nebraska District equally as for the stay of such judgments in the courts of that State, and in like manner determined the liability of sureties upon bonds given for such stay, is founded upon the language of § 914 of the Revised Statutes, which is as follows:
“ The practice, pleadings, and forms and modes of proceeding in civil causes, other than equity and admiralty causes, in the circuit and…
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