Munson v. Munson
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Ejectment, tried to the jury in. the superior court, on tlie general issue, before Me Curdy, J. On the trial the plaintiff relied upon a title acquired by a deed from one Cornelius Munson, to whom the premises had formerly belonged, dated April 8,1851, and introduced the deed in evidence.
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Ejectment, tried to the jury in. the superior court, on tlie general issue, before Me Curdy, J. On the trial the plaintiff relied upon a title acquired by a deed from one Cornelius Munson, to whom the premises had formerly belonged, dated April 8,1851, and introduced the deed in evidence. The defendants offered evidence to prove that the grantor, at the.time of executing the deed, was under an overseer, who had been lawfully placed over him, and that he was in consequence incapable of making thé deed. They also offered evidence of sundry other matters tending to impeach the plaintiff’s title.…
1Opinion of the CourtButleb, J.
It is an established rule in the administration of justice, that all controversies between parties, once litigated and fully and impartially determined, shall cease; and to that end, that no fact involved in such litigated controversy, shown by the record to have been material to its determination, and to have been put in issue and decided, whether the proceeding was at law or in equity, shall again be litigated between the same parties or their privies.
In this case the parties were at issue respecting the title to the land in question. The plaintiff claimed it by virtue of a deed from…
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