Hawley v. Inhabitants of Northampton
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
The plaintiffs in error, being the children and heirs at law of Moses Hawley, deceased, brought this writ of error, September term, 1808, to reverse a judgment of this Court rendered in May, 1792, in favor of the defendants in error against the said Moses.
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The plaintiffs in error, being the children and heirs at law of Moses Hawley, deceased, brought this writ of error, September term, 1808, to reverse a judgment of this Court rendered in May, 1792, in favor of the defendants in error against the said Moses. The original action was entry sur disseisin, brought by the said Moses Hawley, counting on his own seisin in fee, and upon a disseisin of the said inhabitants, in which he demanded sundry parcels of land in said Northampton, and also one undivided third part of certain other parcels of land within the same town. Upon not guilty pleaded, the…
1Opinion of the Court
The judges having conferred together on this cause during the vacation, the chief justice drew up the result; and being detained from attending at this term by bodily indisposition, transmitted that result to his brethren here, * which was now pronounced by Parker, J., as follows; the parties expressing a strong desire for the decision of the cause, and Sedgwick, J., sitting pro forma, having been of counsel in the original action.
The plaintiffs, as the children and heirs of Moses Haivley, have sued this writ, to reverse a judgment rendered against their ancestor at the term of this court…
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