Griswold v. Bigelow
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was an action of ejectment for land in East-Haddam, tried at Middletown,_February term, 1826, before Bristol, J. The plaintiff claimed title to the demanded premises, by virtue of a deed of conveyance from Charles Griswold, Esq. administrator with the will annexed, on the estate of Gen. Dyar Throop, not administered upon.
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This was an action of ejectment for land in East-Haddam, tried at Middletown,_February term, 1826, before Bristol, J. The plaintiff claimed title to the demanded premises, by virtue of a deed of conveyance from Charles Griswold, Esq. administrator with the will annexed, on the estate of Gen. Dyar Throop, not administered upon. On the 17th of May, 1775, Gen. Throop and Phebe, his wife, executed to Matthew Griswold a deed of conveyance, with covenants of seisin and warranty, of two tracts of land in Lyme. In the year 1789, Gen. Throop died, leaving an ample estate, which was soon afterwards…
1Opinion of the Court
Hosmer, Ch. J.
The liability of real estate, by the common law, to the debts of the creditor, is so entirely variant from the statute regulations and established law on the same subject here, as to be utterly irrelevant. Simple contract debts, by the common law, are not recoverable in any shape, out of the intestate’s or testator’s land; and it is made responsible only where the ancestor binds himself and his heirs, by specialty *263And even then, before the act of Wm. & Mary, cap. 14., which is of no obligation here, this security was little more than fallacious. If before action brought, the…
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