Stevens v. Smoker
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action in the nature of ejectment, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Greene, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff, and appeal by the defendant for alleged errors in the charge and rulings of thé court.
1Opinion of the CourtThayer, J.
To one of the two pieces of land in controversy the plaintiff claimed title by inheritance, as one of the heirs at law of his mother who died intestate in 1900; to the other he claimed to have acquired title by deed from one Hull, who had acquired it by deed from the plaintiff’s mother. He claimed to have proved that his mother had acquired title to both parcels from the trustees in bankruptcy of her husband, Robert Stevens, who, prior to his bankruptcy, had owned both, as well as other adjoining land, and who, in 1866, had conveyed a piece of the adjoining land to one Catherine Howard, from…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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