Coburn v. Coxeter
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Trespass, quare clausum, by Wm. P. Coburn against J ames E. Cox-eter. Writ dated Feb. 17,1869. The defendant pleaded the general issue ; and also pleaded specially a right of way over a strip of land one and a half rods in width, immediately north of the defendant’s lot. It appeared that the land immediately north of the alleged way belongs to the plaintiff. It also appeared that one Thayer, prior to Nov. 9, 1857, owned the strip over which the way was claimed.
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Trespass, quare clausum, by Wm. P. Coburn against J ames E. Cox-eter. Writ dated Feb. 17,1869. The defendant pleaded the general issue ; and also pleaded specially a right of way over a strip of land one and a half rods in width, immediately north of the defendant’s lot. It appeared that the land immediately north of the alleged way belongs to the plaintiff. It also appeared that one Thayer, prior to Nov. 9, 1857, owned the strip over which the way was claimed. The plaintiff introduced a quit-claim deed of said strip from Thayer to Silas Fuller, dated Nov. 29,1867, and a quit-claim deed of…
1Opinion of the Court
' Bellows, O. J.
The plaintiff claims title to the land in question under a quit-claim deed from Puller, of January 23, 1869, and Puller derived,his title from Thayer, by deed of November 29, 1867, and it appeared that prior to Nov. 9, 1857, Thayer owned the land; and the question is, whether, on that day, he conveyed it to one Mansfield.
On that day he did convey to Mansfield two tracts of land, both of which were described: the second one, as beginning at the south-west corner of the lot before described, and running north 18 degrees east, one rod and a half, to a stake and stones; thence…
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