Stevens v. Stevens
New York Supreme Court
THIS was an action of ejectment, for the undivided half 0f a farm in Dover, in Dutchess county, containing about 174 acres, and which is called the Hunt farm.
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THIS was an action of ejectment, for the undivided half 0f a farm in Dover, in Dutchess county, containing about 174 acres, and which is called the Hunt farm. The cause was tried before Mr. J. Van Ness, at the Dutchess circuit, . A ^ ^ « ID. &pr%l^ 1818. The premises in question formerly belonged to Lewis Hunt, who died about the year 1777. The will of L. Hunt, by which he devised one third part of his estate to his wife for Jjfe and the remainder of all his estate, real and personal, to his daughters, Susannah Briggs, and Mary Stevens, in fee, was read in evidence on the part of the…
1Opinion of the CourtSpencer, J.
Samuel Stevens acquired a complete title, by his and his wife’s deed to Sheldon and the reconveyance back from him to Samuel Stevens, to one half of the farm. He undoubtedly supposed he had a title to the whole farm, by his purchase in 1795, from Elkanah Briggs and his wife of their moiety; but as that deed was not acknowledged by Mrs. Briggs, until the 20th of October, 1814, and on the 4th of April, 1814, Briggs and his wife, by their deed, duly ackowledged, conveyed to Ebenezer Stevent the whole farm, he acquired no title to that moiety. It is contended, however, that the acknowledgment of…
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