Bell v. Brewster
Ohio Supreme Court
Error to the District Court of Union county. The original action was a suit by the plaintiffs below to quiet their title to certain lands situate in Union county, and which they claimed as the heirs at law of the person last seized. He died in that county on September 11, 1873, and was then known by the name of Robson L. Broome.
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Error to the District Court of Union county. The original action was a suit by the plaintiffs below to quiet their title to certain lands situate in Union county, and which they claimed as the heirs at law of the person last seized. He died in that county on September 11, 1873, and was then known by the name of Robson L. Broome. The plaintiffs, however, claimed that his right name was Levi Brewster ; that he was a son of Seabury Brewster, late of Norwich, Connecticut; that he intermarried with Lucy Waterman on March 13,1820, by whom he had two sons, Richard Brewster, a plaintiff, and Sherman…
1Opinion of the CourtMinshali, J.
The .principal issue of fact in tho case was, whether Levi Brewster, the ancestor of the plaintiffs, was the same person who was known in Union county by the name of Robson L. Broome, and died possessed of the property in con*693troversy. As tending to support the issue on their part, the plaintiffs introduced (1) a letter purporting to have been written by Levi Brewster in the year 1810 from an academy in Connecticut, addressed to Elisha Brewster, as his brother. No other evidence was introduced that it had been so written than that it had been obtained from the family papers of Elisha Brewster,…
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