Langdon v. Templeton
Supreme Court of Vermont
Bill in chancery. Heard upon pleadings and a master’s report at the September term, Washington county, 1892. Ross, chancellor, decreed for the orator. The defendants appeal. The controversy was in reference to lot 52 of the second division of lands in the town of Worcester, embracing about three hundred acres.
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Bill in chancery. Heard upon pleadings and a master’s report at the September term, Washington county, 1892. Ross, chancellor, decreed for the orator. The defendants appeal. The controversy was in reference to lot 52 of the second division of lands in the town of Worcester, embracing about three hundred acres. The orator alleged that in 1824 this land was sold for taxes and was bid off by Charles Buckley and James H. Langdon at such sale; that the lands were not redeemed; that the sale and all proceedings connected therewith were regular and valid, and that the said Charles Buckley and James…
1Opinion of the CourtRowell, J.
When this case was here on demurrer to the bill, 61 Vt. 119, it was held that in the circumstances alleged, the bill was maintainable as a bill of peace, for that the tax sale of the lot in 1824, as the proceedings therein were set out in the hill, conferred an equitable title on the purchasers thereat, under whom the orator claims, and gave them the right to call in the legal title; and for that the *178orator, being in possession, could bring no action at law against the defendant who, it did not appear, had disturbed his possession, but who, it did appear, was making claim, and had brought…
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