Joseph Webster, Plaintiff In Error v. Hugh Reid
Citation | 52 U.S. 437,11 How. 437,13 L.Ed. 761 |
Parties | JOSEPH WEBSTER, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR, v. HUGH T. REID |
Decision Date | 01 December 1850 |
Court | U.S. Supreme Court |
H. T. REID, Attorney for himself.'
The defendant put in the following plea:——
'Territory of Iowa, Lee County, sct.
'District Court of said County, October Term, 1841.
'Joseph Webster denies the right of Hugh T. Reid to the tract of land, with the appurtenances, and damages for the detention thereof, as set forth in his declaration, or to any part thereof; and hereupon he prays a jury to determine the truth of this plea.
'MILLER, MILLS, & COCHRAN, for Defendant.'- On the 12th of May, 1845, the cause came on for trial, when the verdict of the jury was for the plaintiff.
There were eight bills of exceptions taken in the progress of the trial, which occupied twenty-six pages of the printed record. Into them were incorporated long legislative acts and deeds, of which a summary is given above.
Instead of transcribing these long exceptions, it will be sufficient to state the points involved.
First Exception.
The plaintiff offered in evidence the two judgments given in favor of Johnston and Brigham.
This was the first evidence offered by the plaintiff to the jury. The defendant objected to the admissibility of the judgments, as being rendered without jurisdiction; but the court overruled the objections, and admitted the records, to which the defendant excepts, and prays the court to sign and seal this his first bill of exceptions, which is done at the...
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