Busby v. Littlefield
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
In Equity. Tbe following case is stated by tbe bill: ,Tbat, on tbe 29tb day of August, 1844, tbe complainant purchased of John Trickey certain premises in Dover, being a lot of land one hundred feet square, with buildings thereon, situated on tbe west side of Chestnut street, and afterwards put up another set of buildings on tbe northerly part of tbe lot, at an expense of about $1,000, and appropriated thirty feet front and rear, and one hundred feet deep, of tbe whole lot…
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In Equity. Tbe following case is stated by tbe bill: ,Tbat, on tbe 29tb day of August, 1844, tbe complainant purchased of John Trickey certain premises in Dover, being a lot of land one hundred feet square, with buildings thereon, situated on tbe west side of Chestnut street, and afterwards put up another set of buildings on tbe northerly part of tbe lot, at an expense of about $1,000, and appropriated thirty feet front and rear, and one hundred feet deep, of tbe whole lot to these buildings ; and that be has always occupied tbe remaining seventy feet of tbe lot, with the buildings thereon,…
1Opinion of the CourtEastman, J.
Some of the most important matters set forth in the complainant’s bill are admitted by the defendants’ answers. The deed from Trickey to Busby of the hundred foot lot, and the boundaries of the same ; the erection and occupation of the buildings; the bargain for a portion of the lot only, and the error in all of the deeds from Busby to Jordan, and Jordan to Crawford, and Crawford to Littlefield, are facts not in dispute. It is conceded by the defendant that Littlefield has a *84legal title, derived from Busby, through Crawford and Jordan, to sixty-eight feet of the lot, for which no…
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