Hicks v. Rogers

This was a case certified from the Circuit Court for the district of Vermont, the judges of that court(b) being opposed in opinion upon the question, whether the plaintiffs, devisees of a tract of land, to be equally divided between them, could, under the will, support a joint action of ejectment. The declaration did not set forth the title of the plaintiffs, otherwise than by the following averment: “ Of which tract or parcel of land, the plaintiffs, on the 6th day of April, in the year of our Lord Christ, one thousand eight hundred and four, were well seised and possessed in their own…