SEARS v. EASTBURN

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51 U.S. 187 (1850)

10 How. 187

13 L.Ed. 381

SHERBURNE SEARS, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR, v. JOSEPH R. EAS URN.

Supreme Court of United States.

December 20, 1850.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

It was argued by Mr. Sewall, for the plaintiff in error.


Mr. Chief Justice TANEY delivered the opinion of the court.

The point in this case is a narrow one, and concerns only the practice in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Alabama.

It appears that in 1821 an act was passed by the legislature of that State to abolish fictitious proceedings in ejectment; and to substitute in their place the action of trespass, for the purpose of trying the...

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