Legal Opinion

Bissell v. Nooney

Supreme Court of Connecticut

Decided September 15, 1866PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Ejectment, brought to the superior court for Hartford county. The following facts were found by the court. The land in question was owned, on and before the 10th of February, 1842, by Andrew Denison. At half past ten o’clock in the forenoon of that day it was attached by Harvey Bissell, a creditor of Denison, who subsequently obtained judgment in his suit and levied the execution issued thereon upon the laud, and afterwards devised the. same to the plaintiff.

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Ejectment, brought to the superior court for Hartford county. The following facts were found by the court. The land in question was owned, on and before the 10th of February, 1842, by Andrew Denison. At half past ten o’clock in the forenoon of that day it was attached by Harvey Bissell, a creditor of Denison, who subsequently obtained judgment in his suit and levied the execution issued thereon upon the laud, and afterwards devised the. same to the plaintiff. On the same 10th day of February Denison conveyed by ■ release deed all his interest in the premises to Susan Denison, of whom the…

1Opinion of the CourtPark, J.

Two questions are made in this case. One grows out of the attachment of the land in question, and the other arises on the levy of the execution upon the land. We will consider them in their order.

The land in question was attached on the tenth day of February, 1842, at half past ten o’clock in the forenoon of that day, in a suit in favor of one Harvey Bissell against one Andrew Denison, who was then the owner of an undivided moiety of the land subject to a life estate in one Susan Denison. On the same day Andrew Denison conveyed by deed all his right, title and interest in the land to Susan…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Booth v. BoothSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1829

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  1. Wilcox v. EmersonSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1872

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