MERCER'S LESSEE v. SELDEN


42 U.S. 37 (____)

1 How. 37

LESSEE OF JOHN MERCER, AND MARY SCOTT MERCER, HIS WIFE, PLAINTIFFS IN ERROR, v. WILLIAM CARY SELDEN, DEFENDANT.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Whipple and Walter Jones, for the plaintiffs.

Chapman Johnson, for defendant.


The opinion of the court was delivered by Mr. Justice McLEAN.

This case is brought before this court, from the Circuit Court of the eastern district of Virginia, by a writ of error.

An action of ejectment was commenced by the lessors of the plaintiff, to recover possession of certain undivided interests in a tract of land in Loudon county.

On the trial, the jury found a statement of facts, on which the questions...

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