Sawyer v. Coolidge
Supreme Court of Vermont
Ejectment for land in Plymouth. Plea general issue. Trial by jury, May Term, 1860, — Redfield, Ch. J., presiding. The facts necessary for a proper understanding of the point decided sufficiently appear in the opinion of the court. Exceptions by the plaintiff.
1Opinion of the Court
Barrett J.
The deed of John Coolidge dated June — 1813, conveyed to the plaintiff a certain described tract of fifty-three acres, from which eight acres was reserved. The plaintiff stands in this suit upon her rights acquired by virtue of that deed. The question isas to the location of that eight acres. In virtue of that reservation and the conveyance in 1822, by John Coolidge to Jonas Coolidge, Jr., the defendant asserts his rights in reference to the plaintiff’s claim.
The reservation is of eight. acres in the south-west corner of the land described in said deed to the plaintiff, and adds:…
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