U.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia December 15, 1826 (Greenwell v. Botelor)

The Couet (MoRsell, J., contra,) ordered the property to be returned to the defendant, being satisfied by evidence that the property, at the time of the defendant’s taking it, belonged to the said Joseph W. Greenwell, and not to the plaintiff, and that the possession was not first in the plaintiff, and was not obtained by the defendant forcibly or fraudulently. (See the Maryland Act of 1785, c.