Jackson ex dem. King v. Burtis & Woodward
New York Supreme Court
This was an action of ejectment for certain premises situate in the city of New-York. The cause was tried before Mr. J Yates, at the New-York sittings, in November, 1816. William Teller, John Kip, and Lucas Kiersted, were the patentees of a certain lot of land in the city of New-York, called the Negro Burial Ground.
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This was an action of ejectment for certain premises situate in the city of New-York. The cause was tried before Mr. J Yates, at the New-York sittings, in November, 1816. William Teller, John Kip, and Lucas Kiersted, were the patentees of a certain lot of land in the city of New-York, called the Negro Burial Ground. William Teller survived the other two patentees, and died, having made a will, under which his four children, one of whom was William Teller, the younger, the ancestor of the lessors of the plaintiff, became en-to the premises in question. William Teller, the younger, died in…
1Opinion of the Court
Platt J.
delivered the opinion of the court. The lessors of the plaintiff claim title under several of the devisees in the will of William Teller, dated the 21st of July, 1753, and rely also, on the subsequent possession and parol declarations of Isaac Teller, one of those devisees.
The defendants show a conveyance of the 8th of July, 1760, from Isaac Teller, and Jacobus Buys, two of the three surviving executors of the will of William, Teller, to Christiana Prevost, of the premises in question, in fee simple.
The principal question presented by the case is, whether the power to sell real…
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