Inhabitants of Worcester v. Eaton
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This was a writ of entry sur disseisin, in which the said inhabitants demand against the said Eaton certain described lands and rooms in a dwelling-house, &c., assigned to Betsey Flagg, widow of David F., for her dower, and by her conveyed to the demandants, who allege a * seisin of the freehold there- [ * 369 J of for her life, until disseised by the tenants.
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This was a writ of entry sur disseisin, in which the said inhabitants demand against the said Eaton certain described lands and rooms in a dwelling-house, &c., assigned to Betsey Flagg, widow of David F., for her dower, and by her conveyed to the demandants, who allege a * seisin of the freehold there- [ * 369 J of for her life, until disseised by the tenants. The cause was tried, April term, 1813, upon the general issue of non disseisivit, before the late Chief Justice Sewall; when the de> mandants proved and gave in evidence the deed of Betsey Flagg dated and executed June 29, 1810, by…
1Opinion of the CourtParker, C. J.
The demandants claim under a conveyance from Betsey Flagg, who had a life estate in the premises, under an assignment of it by the judge of probate, as her dower in her *340deceased husband’s estate. The consideration of this conveyance was substantially an engagement, on the part of the inhabitants of the town of Worcester, to support her during the residue of her life.
The tenant defends under a deed from the same person, executed and delivered, almost two years before her deed to the demandants, to William, C. Fislce and Amos Hudson, for the apparent consider ation of 250 dollars, and a deed…
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