Pease v. Whitney
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Writ oe Entry, dated August 12, 1913. Trial by jury and verdict for the plaintiff. Transferred from the September term, 1915, of the superior court by Sawyer, J. The plaintiff claims title to a certain lot of land in Hillsborough, designated for convenience at the trial as lot C, which she supposed was included in the description contained in a deed to her from the defendant dated July 3, 1885, but which was not so included.
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Writ oe Entry, dated August 12, 1913. Trial by jury and verdict for the plaintiff. Transferred from the September term, 1915, of the superior court by Sawyer, J. The plaintiff claims title to a certain lot of land in Hillsborough, designated for convenience at the trial as lot C, which she supposed was included in the description contained in a deed to her from the defendant dated July 3, 1885, but which was not so included. The deed in fact conveyed a tract of land adjoining the lot in question. The defendant was the owner of lot C at that time and still has the legal title to it, while the…
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
The principal question which is presented by the defendant’s exception to the refusal of the court to order a verdict in her favor, is whether the evidence or the evidentiary facts reported warranted the jury in finding a verdict for the plaintiff. Previous to the date of the defendant’s deed to the plaintiff, the evidence tends to show that the parties by then* agents went upon the premises which the plaintiff proposed to buy and the defendant proposed to sell, and the boundaries were pointed out by the defendant; that the plaintiff at least was led to understand that that part of the land…
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