DAVIESS ET AL. v. FAIRBAIRN ET AL.


44 U.S. 636 (1845)

3 How. 636

AND D.H. DAVIESS ET AL., PLAINTIFFS IN ERROR, v. JOHN H. FAIRBAIRN ET AL., HEIRS OF MARY E. FAIRBAIRN, DECEASED, DEFENDANTS IN ERROR.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Crittenden, for the plaintiffs in error.

Loughborough, for the defendants in error.


Mr. Justice McLEAN delivered the opinion of the court.

This case is brought here by a writ of error to the Circuit Court for the district of Kentucky.

The lessors of the plaintiff brought an action of ejectment, to recover a half-acre lot in the city of Louisville, numbered on the new plan of the city ninety-one. Richard Ferguson, Daviess, and others, were made defendants. The jury found the defendants guilty, and...

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