Bryan v. Bradley
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was an action of ejectment for a parcel of land in Branford; tried, on the general issue closed to the court, at New-Haven, January term, 1844, before Hinman, J. The plaintiffs, in support of their title, offered in evidence a deed of the demanded premises, executed by Timothy Bradley, on the 3d of November, 1842, to his daughter Irene Bryan, one of the plaintiffs, and wife of William Bryan, the other plaintiff.
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This was an action of ejectment for a parcel of land in Branford; tried, on the general issue closed to the court, at New-Haven, January term, 1844, before Hinman, J. The plaintiffs, in support of their title, offered in evidence a deed of the demanded premises, executed by Timothy Bradley, on the 3d of November, 1842, to his daughter Irene Bryan, one of the plaintiffs, and wife of William Bryan, the other plaintiff. The consideration expressed in the deed, was ten dollars, received of his daughter Irene Bryan. Immediately after the description of the premises, and before the habendum, the…
1Opinion of the CourtStorrs, J.
We have no doubt that, independent of the other grounds urged by the defendant, the deed on which the *479parties rely, is valid, by the usage of this state, to vest in the widow of Timothy Bradley, under whom the defendant claims, an estate in the land in question, during her widowhood.
It was clearly intended to be in the nature of a testamentary disposition, so far at least as it respects the provision which it makes for the wife of the grantor. This plainly appears from its phraseology, the relation existing between them, the time during which the use is limited to her, the peculiar condition…
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