Legal Opinion

Willey v. Conner

Supreme Court of Vermont

Decided August 15, 1871PublishedCited by 2 opinions

Trover, with special count on the case. Plea, general issue, and. trial by court, October term, 1870. PecK, J., presiding. On the 18th day of July, 1863, the defendant leased certain premises of Harvey and Eliza Beecher for the term of five years, as by the terms of a written lease.

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Trover, with special count on the case. Plea, general issue, and. trial by court, October term, 1870. PecK, J., presiding. On the 18th day of July, 1863, the defendant leased certain premises of Harvey and Eliza Beecher for the term of five years, as by the terms of a written lease. On the 15th day of May, 1865, the said Eliza Beecher quit-claimed said premises to Mathewson & Nelson, and on the 20th day of October, 1865, the said Nelson quit-claimed said premises to said Mathewson, and on the 26th day of December, 1867, the said Mathewson deeded, by warranty deed, the same premises to the…

1Opinion of the Court

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Royce, J.

The lease executed by Harvey and Eliza Beecher, on the 18th day of July, 1863, to the defendant, gave the defendant the right to the exclusive possession and enjoyment of the premises described therein, for the full term of five years from that date. The crop of hay that the plaintiff claims to' recover for in this action was raised on the premises, and was harvested by the defendant between the 9th and 16th days of July, 1868, and was removed from the premises on or before the date last named, two days before the expiration of the lease. The…

2Cited by2 opinions

  1. City Council of Greenville v. WhiteMississippi Supreme Court · 1943
  2. Frishkorn v. OgdenAlabama Court of Appeals · 1918

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