Lockwood v. Lockwood
Supreme Court of Connecticut
j Action to recover possession of certain real estate; brought to tbe Superior Court in Fairfield County, and tried to the jury before Sanford, J. Verdict for the plaintiff and appeal by the defendant for error in the rulings of the court. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtLoomis, J.
This was an action of ejectment to recover the possession of certain land described in the complaint, situated in the town of Stamford. Both plaintiff and defendant claimed title to the land under deeds directly from the same grantor, one Enos Bennett Lockwood, who died on the 6th day of November, 1870. The plaintiff’s deed was dated October 31st, 1870, and recorded at one o’clock the same day. The defendant’s deed was dated June 9th, 1870, and was recorded at eleven o’clock and twenty minutes in the forenoon of October 31st, 1870; so that, if the defendant’s deed was good, it antedated that…
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