Dittman v. Cornelius’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““In favor of plaintiff, Anna Dittman, for the land disclaimed by defendants, and against her for the remainder of the land described in her petition and claimed by defendants. The judgment also denies the defendants a recovery of any portion of the land in controversy upon their answers, and expressly denies defendant W. D. Cornelius a recovery of title upon his plea of limitation. Judgment was also in favor of plaintiff for all costs incurred up to the filing of the disclaimer by defendants, and against her for such costs as accrued thereafter. In other words, the effect of the judgment was to hold that neither plaintiff nor defendants had title to the land in controversy. It expressly decreed that plaintiff should take nothing by her suit against defendants, except for the land disclaimed by them, and also expressly decreed that defendant W. D. ' Cornelius take nothing under his plea of title by limitation.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dittman v. Cornelius

2. ““It is shown by the evidence that the title to the land in controversy passed by a regular chain of transfers from Samuel Hoit, the original grantee, to Sheldon E. Bell, and that so far as shown by the evidence such title is still in him or his heirs, unless the deed of E. S. Bell, by which he attempted to convey said land to Mary Á. L. Monroe, had the effect to pass the title from Sheldon E. Bell to the said Mary A. L. Monroe, under whom appellant claims. In other words, unless it is shown that E. S. Bell, who conveyed the land to Mary A. L. Monroe, was the same party to whom the land was conveyed under the name of Sheldon E. Bell, the title to the land did not pass from Sheldon E. Bell to Mary A. L. Monroe hy the deed of E. S. Bell, and as a consequence no title ever passed to appellant, who claims under Monroe, and in such event she could not recover the land in controversy in this suit.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dittman v. Cornelius