Jerome v. Jerome
Supreme Court of Connecticut
IN ERROR. This was a bill to perpetuate testimony. The bill stated, That on the 30th of August, 1813, the plaintiff’s father, Richard Jerome, executed and delivered to the plaintiff a deed of gift of a certain piece of land in Waterford, containing about eighty acres, bounded, &c. ; which deed was signed and sealed, by the said Richard Jerome, witnessed by two subscribing witnesses, and acknowledged before proper authority, in and by which deed, said land was, by said…
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IN ERROR. This was a bill to perpetuate testimony. The bill stated, That on the 30th of August, 1813, the plaintiff’s father, Richard Jerome, executed and delivered to the plaintiff a deed of gift of a certain piece of land in Waterford, containing about eighty acres, bounded, &c. ; which deed was signed and sealed, by the said Richard Jerome, witnessed by two subscribing witnesses, and acknowledged before proper authority, in and by which deed, said land was, by said Richard Jerome, conveyed to the plaintiff; that by the mutual consent of the grantor and grantee, said deed was left in the…
1Opinion of the Court
Hosmer, Ch. J.
The plaintiff’s bill must be adjudged by its conformity "to the rules and usages in chancery proceedings;" for this is the expression of the statute, p. 197.
An affidavit, by our practice, is not required to be annexed to a bill in chancery, in any case.
The title of the plaintiff ought to be set forth plainly, yet succinctly, and that with all necessary and convenient certainty as to the material facts, and as to the time, place, manner, and other incidents. Coop. Eq. Plead, 5, 131. Now, in this case, deficient as the bill is, in alleging the place, where the deed in question was…
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