Jackson ex dem. Beekman v. France
New York Supreme Court
THIS was an action of ejectment for lands in the town of Ma- . . . „ makatmg, in the county ol Sullivan. The cause was tried at the Sullivan circuit, before Mr. Justice Spencer, the 2d of Sepfeml,er 1812, when a verdict was taken for the plaintiff, subject e e , . J to the opinion of the court on a case made, with liberty to either party to turn the same into a special verdict.
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THIS was an action of ejectment for lands in the town of Ma- . . . „ makatmg, in the county ol Sullivan. The cause was tried at the Sullivan circuit, before Mr. Justice Spencer, the 2d of Sepfeml,er 1812, when a verdict was taken for the plaintiff, subject e e , . J to the opinion of the court on a case made, with liberty to either party to turn the same into a special verdict. The parts of the case which it is thought necessary to state are, that the plaintiff claimed title to the premises, under a patent to John Miller and Nicholas Killman, dated the 24th of October, 1771, describing the…
1Per curiam
The defendant is in possession under the Ilardenbergh patent, which is the elder patent. He holds under the heirs of James Desbrosses; who, according to the documents produced by the plaintiff, was, in 1791, one of the acknowledged proprietors of the Hardenbergh patent. If the premises- are covered by this patent, the defendant has shown a complete bar to the plaintiff’s claim; for the patent under which the lessors of the plaintiff claim is, in comparison with the other, a very young patent, and there are no possessions, one way or the other, to interfere with the dry question, as to the…
2Cited by1 opinion
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