Ricard v. Williams
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court of Connecticut. This was a suit instituted by the defendants in error against the plaintiff in error, in the Court below. The original action is commonly known in Connecticut by the name of .an action of disseisin, and is a real action, final upon the rights of the parties, and in the nature of a real action at the common law.
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Error to the Circuit Court of Connecticut. This was a suit instituted by the defendants in error against the plaintiff in error, in the Court below. The original action is commonly known in Connecticut by the name of .an action of disseisin, and is a real action, final upon the rights of the parties, and in the nature of a real action at the common law. The cause was tried upon the general issue, nul tort, nul disseisin, and a verdict being found for the demandants, a bill of exceptions was taken to the opinion of the Court upon matters of law at the trial. The history of the case, as it…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Story
The principal questions which have arisen, and have been argued here, upon the instructions given by the Circuit Court, and to which aloné the Court deem' it necessary to direct their attention, are, First, whether upon the facts stated, a legal presumption exists, that William Dudley died seised of. an estate of inheritance in the demanded premises ; and, if so. Secondly, whethéran exclusive possession of the demanded premises,-by Joseph Dudley , and. his grantees, after the death of William, under an adversary claim, for thirty years, is a . bar to the entry and title of the demandants…
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