Bernard v. Shaw
Bernard v. Shaw
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court. The plaintiff complains that the defendant prevented the sheriff from putting him in possession of a tract of land, which he recovered in this court, at September term, 1820; 9 Martin, 49. The defendant claimed the possession of the whole, and alleged a good title. There was judgment against him and he appealed.
The facts provent established the plaintiff’s right of possession to the whole; the defendant, however, gives in evidence, his possession and cultivation of a field of fifteen arpens; but
It is, therefore, ordered, adjudged and decreed, that the judgment of the district court be affirmed with costs.
Porter, J. did not join in the opinion, having been of counsel in the cause.
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