Jackson ex dem. Winthrop v. Ingraham
New York Supreme Court
THIS was an action of ejectment for lands, in Chazy, in the county of Clinton. A verdict was taken for the plaintiff, subject to the opinion of the court, on a case, which the counsel were several hours in reading, but the material facts contained in it, are as follows : At the trial, the plaintiff produced letters patent from the colonial government of the province of Nerw-Tork, to Elkanah Dean, dated the 11th July, 1769, for a tract of land, lying on the west side of Lake…
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THIS was an action of ejectment for lands, in Chazy, in the county of Clinton. A verdict was taken for the plaintiff, subject to the opinion of the court, on a case, which the counsel were several hours in reading, but the material facts contained in it, are as follows : At the trial, the plaintiff produced letters patent from the colonial government of the province of Nerw-Tork, to Elkanah Dean, dated the 11th July, 1769, for a tract of land, lying on the west side of Lake Champlain, in the then county of Albany, containing 13,500 acres ; and also for an island in the lake, called Grand t i…
1Per curiam
This court cannot take notice of any title to land not derived from our own government, and verified by a patent under the great seal of the state, or the province of New-York. Whether claimants to lands within this state, founded on French grants, might not have had an equitable claim on the government, under the capitulation of Montreal, in 1760, or the treaty of 1763, is a question, with which this court has no concern. Such a claim might have been presented and urged to the government but it does not afford that evidence of legal title which can be recognised by this court. We can look no…
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