LUCAS v. BROOKS


85 U.S. 436 (1873)

18 Wall. 436

LUCAS v. BROOKS.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. C.W.B. Allison and D.B. Lucas, for the plaintiff in error:

Mr. C.J. Faulkner, contra.


Mr. Justice STRONG delivered the opinion of the court.

Before proceeding to a consideration of the several errors assigned, it may be remarked that if the defendant was in possession under a lease from the plaintiff, or from any one to whose reversion the plaintiff had succeeded, he was not at liberty to controvert the title of the plaintiff or of that reversioner, while he remained in possession. In view of this undoubted...

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