BROWN v. RANK

No. 99.

132 U.S. 216 (1889)

BROWN v. RANK.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 25, 1889.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Leander Holmes, for appellants, submitted on his brief.

Mr. W.W. Upton and Mr. A.H. Garland, for appellee, submitted on their brief.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER delivered the opinion of the court.

Appellants commenced a possessory action, in the nature of ejectment, against appellee, in the District Court of the Second Judicial District of Washington Territory, by complaint in the ordinary form. To this the defendant filed an answer, denying title in plaintiffs, and otherwise equivalent to the plea of not guilty; and in addition pleaded affirmatively four defences, setting up, among other things,...

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