Holmead v. Smith

| U.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia | Nov 15, 1837

CRANCH, Chief Judge,

said that this court had entertained jurisdiction, by certiorari, in forcible entry and detainer in several cases, and referred to the case of U. S. v. Donahoo [Case No. 14,982], in this court, at December term, 1S07; and the case of the Lord Proprietary v. Brown, 1 Har. & McH. 428.

THE COURT (THRUSTON, Circuit Judge, absent) quashed the inquisition for uncertainty in the description of the property. “Tenement or storehouse” is too vague.