Laight v. Morgan
Court for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors
The appellants filed their bill of complaint in the-court of chancery; against the respondent, and the other parties, stating, among other things, that on the 25th of March, 1768,. George 111. by letters patent, granted unto Michael Byrn, and seventeen others, in fee, a tract of land in the then county of Albany,,containing 18,000 acres; that On the 8th"of May, 1770, the same king granted in fee unto the late Sir William Johnson, deceased, and twenty-five other person's, an-…
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The appellants filed their bill of complaint in the-court of chancery; against the respondent, and the other parties, stating, among other things, that on the 25th of March, 1768,. George 111. by letters patent, granted unto Michael Byrn, and seventeen others, in fee, a tract of land in the then county of Albany,,containing 18,000 acres; that On the 8th"of May, 1770, the same king granted in fee unto the late Sir William Johnson, deceased, and twenty-five other person's, an- . • 'Other tract of land in the same county, containing [*430] 25,000 acres; that all the patent fees and *other…
1Opinion of the CourtKent, J.
The bill of complaint in this cause appears to! have had three objects, viz. . -
1. To obtain a discovery of facts from the defendants ;
2. ■ To perpetuate testimony ;
3. To obtain specific relief.
Upon the demurrer to the whole bill there - were séven causes of demurrer assigned.
The three last causes were assigned in the same words, in the,similar ease of he Roy and others v. Veeder and others [ante p. 417,) decided at the last session of this court; and by that decision, they are to be deemed as having been overruled. The fourth cause of demurrer was abandoned by the counsel for the…
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