Soule v. Barlow
Supreme Court of Vermont
Trespass qua. clau. Plea, general issue, and trial by jury, September Term, 1876, Royce, J., presiding, and verdict and judgment for plaintiff. The acts constituting the alleged trespass were committed on swamp lot 39 in Fairfield. Swamp lots 38, 39, and 40 contained four acres each, were twelve rods wide, and a part of sixty-eight swamp lots that were divided among the original proprietors of the town.
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Trespass qua. clau. Plea, general issue, and trial by jury, September Term, 1876, Royce, J., presiding, and verdict and judgment for plaintiff. The acts constituting the alleged trespass were committed on swamp lot 39 in Fairfield. Swamp lots 38, 39, and 40 contained four acres each, were twelve rods wide, and a part of sixty-eight swamp lots that were divided among the original proprietors of the town. Lot 39 lay between lots 38 on the south and 40 on the north, and was, with them, bounded on the east by the plaintiff’s land, and on the west by a creek All of said lots were low and wet, and…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Wheeler, J.
As this case now stands, it shows no record evidence of title nor color of title in any one until the record of the assignment to the defendant, March 30, 1840, of the land in question. Nor is there anything in the case that shows who was during the time in question the rightful owner of it, further than as the facts shown tend lo show a right acquired by possession. It is said that the plaintiff introduced a deed from Ool. Barlow, understood to be Bradley Barlow the elder, to Andrew Bradley apparently, with evidence tending to show that it…
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