Knox v. Hook
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
In this action the demandants counted upon the seizin of Henry Knox, Esq., deceased, their late father, within forty years. The tenant pleaded the general issue ; and also that he held the demanded.premises by virtue of a possession and improvement for more than six years previous to the second day of March, 1808, the date of the “ act for the limitation of certain real actions, and for the equitable settlement of certain claims arising in real actions.”
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In this action the demandants counted upon the seizin of Henry Knox, Esq., deceased, their late father, within forty years. The tenant pleaded the general issue ; and also that he held the demanded.premises by virtue of a possession and improvement for more than six years previous to the second day of March, 1808, the date of the “ act for the limitation of certain real actions, and for the equitable settlement of certain claims arising in real actions.” (1) At the trial, which was had before the present Chief Justice, at the sittings here after the last June Term, the title of the…
1Opinion of the CourtParker, C. J.
The tenant in this case claims the benefit of the act, entitled “ An act for the limitation of certain real actions, and for the equitable settlement of certain claims arising in real actions ” ; and he founds his claim upon his having been in possession of the demanded premises at the time the act passed, and six years before the commencement of the action according to the provisions of that act.
[*331] * This claim is resisted by the demandants, on the ground that the tenant originally entered under a contract to purchase the land of the late Henry Knox, Esquire, the proprietor, and so could not…
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