Doe ex dem. Britton v. Lawrence
Supreme Court of Vermont
THIS was an action of ejectment for fifty acres of land, being the north half of Lot No. 14 in the 2d division of lands in Weybridge. On the trial, the plaintiff proved a title in his lessor to half of the right of Z. H. one of the grantees in the charter of Weybridge.
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THIS was an action of ejectment for fifty acres of land, being the north half of Lot No. 14 in the 2d division of lands in Weybridge. On the trial, the plaintiff proved a title in his lessor to half of the right of Z. H. one of the grantees in the charter of Weybridge. The counsel for plaintiff further stated, that in the'division of the town of Weybridge, the fifty acres in question had been legally voted by the proprietors, to the settler on the half right of Z. H. owned by the lessor of the plaintiff. To prove this, the proprietors’ records were produced, which began with reciting that “…
1Opinion of the Court
Chipman, Ch. J.,
in his charge to the Jury, observed, that as the defendants were in possession, it was necessary that the plaintiff should make out a good title in every point, before he could remote the defendants. — That although the lessor of the plaintiff appeared to own the half of an undivided share in Weybridge, yet he had failed in proving a right to the fifty acres demanded, as the north half of Lot No. 14, drawn and divided to the right of Z. D. — That no legal division had been shewn.
The proprietors had proceeded legally in warning their meeting, and voting to make their division,…
2Cited by1 opinion
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