Proprietors of Enfield v. Day
Superior Court of New Hampshire
This was a writ of entry, brought to recover a tract of land in Enfield. The action was commenced on the 19th April, 1833, and was tried upon the general issue at May term, 1834. The demandants gave in evidence the charter of Enfield, which included, as they contended, the demanded premises.
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This was a writ of entry, brought to recover a tract of land in Enfield. The action was commenced on the 19th April, 1833, and was tried upon the general issue at May term, 1834. The demandants gave in evidence the charter of Enfield, which included, as they contended, the demanded premises. The tenant, in answer to this, gave in evidence a copy of a vote of the demandants, by which the demanded premises were conveyed to John Johnson on the 2d December, 1826. To this the demandants objected that it was inadmissible until it was shown that the meeting of the proprietors at which the vote was…
1Opinion of the Court
Richardson. C. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.*, This case has been very forcibly and pertinently argued on both sides, and the grounds taken very clearly and plainly stated. I shall in the first place examine the exceptions *467which have been taken to the instructions which were given to the jury.
The jury were in substance instructed, that if the proprietors of Enfield entered upon and claimed the land in dispute, under their.original charter, and held peaceable possession for more than twenty years, no claim being made during the time by the proprietors of Grantham, but all title…
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