Peck v. Heurich
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hearing on an appeal by the plaintiff from a judgment on a verdict directed by the court in an action of ejectment. The Court in its opinion stated the case as follows: This is a suit in ejectment, instituted in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia by the appellants as plaintiffs to recover possession of certain undivided interests in a tract of land known as Rosedale and Isherwood, situated in the District of Columbia and adjoining the northeastern boundary of the…
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Hearing on an appeal by the plaintiff from a judgment on a verdict directed by the court in an action of ejectment. The Court in its opinion stated the case as follows: This is a suit in ejectment, instituted in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia by the appellants as plaintiffs to recover possession of certain undivided interests in a tract of land known as Rosedale and Isherwood, situated in the District of Columbia and adjoining the northeastern boundary of the city of Washington, from which they claimed in their declaration, filed on September io, 1892, to have been unlawfully…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Morris
The substantial question raised by the exceptions and by the assignments of error is, whether the deed of convey*280anee from the heirs of Ann Bartlett was inadmissible in evidence either on the ground of champerty or for any other invalidity. But another question, also, of great importance, is raised by the record, and has been much insisted upon by counsel for the appellee; and that is, whether, even if there was error in the exclusion of the deed, there was not a total failure of proof on the part of the plaintiffs such as to justify the entry of judgment for the defendant in any event.
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