Tibbals v. Jacobs
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Ejectment ; tried to the jury in the superior court on the general issue, before Park, J. The demanded premises, previous to the 4th day of May, 1857, belonged to Joel Jacobs, one of the defendants, who on that day conveyed them by quit-claim deed to the other defendants, who were his children. The plaintiffs had since levied an execution on the premises and had them set off to them in satisfaction of it.
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Ejectment ; tried to the jury in the superior court on the general issue, before Park, J. The demanded premises, previous to the 4th day of May, 1857, belonged to Joel Jacobs, one of the defendants, who on that day conveyed them by quit-claim deed to the other defendants, who were his children. The plaintiffs had since levied an execution on the premises and had them set off to them in satisfaction of it. On the trial the plaintiffs offered evidence to prove that Joel Jacobs conveyed the premises to his children for the purpose of avoiding the support of his wife, who was then living with…
1Opinion of the CourtHinman, C. J.
We have no difficulty with most of the objections taken by the plaintiffs’ counsel to the rulings of the superior court. It is claimed, in the first place, that the court erred in not charging the jury that the deed of Joel Jacobs to Charles Jacobs and others, so far as it purported to convey an interest in the premises to John Jacobs and to Eleanor Hills at a time when they had no knowledge of the conveyance, was void, notwithstanding they both accepted it, and the terms upon which it was given, as soon as it was first brought to their knowledge. But this point is, well settled the other…
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