Thayer v. . Finton
New York Court of Appeals
.Appeal from order of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the fifth judicial department, made the 1st Tuesday of June, 1885, which reversed a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a decision of the court on trial without a jury. This action wasf or alleged trespass. The defendant pleaded title. The facts so far as material are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Huger, Ch. J.
The question in this case involves the title to a parcel of land, said to contain about nine acres, in the town of Barrington, in this state, and depends for its solution upon the construction to be put upon the description contained in a deed, dated April, 1864, given by Samuel and Arm Maria Thayer to Stephen Eggleston.
The plaintiff claims as tenant by the curtesy through his wife, Ann Maria Thayer, alleging that the lot was not transferred by the deed referred to; and the defendant asserts title thereto under a deed from Eggleston, plaintiff’s grantee, which did describe the…
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