Dole v. Irish
New York Supreme Court
This was an action of trover for a horse, tried at the Erie county circuit court, before the Hon. Justice Marvin, in November, 1847. The jury rendered a special verdict, finding, in substance, the following facts: That the plaintiff was appointed, by the surrogate of the county of Erie, administrator of all and singular the goods and chattels which were of Jesse Jameson, deceased ; and as such administrator, in the month of March, 1846, and before the commencement of this…
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This was an action of trover for a horse, tried at the Erie county circuit court, before the Hon. Justice Marvin, in November, 1847. The jury rendered a special verdict, finding, in substance, the following facts: That the plaintiff was appointed, by the surrogate of the county of Erie, administrator of all and singular the goods and chattels which were of Jesse Jameson, deceased ; and as such administrator, in the month of March, 1846, and before the commencement of this suit, he demanded the horse in question of the defendant, and at the. same time produced and showed to the defendant the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Mullett, J.
Whatever may have been the relations between the Europeans and the native indians, growing out of the discovery of this country by the former, and the uncivilized condition of the latter, the relations between the English of New-York and the Six Nations have been established by convention for more than one hundred and twenty years; Judge Smith, the able historian of the colony of New-York, informs us that in the year 1726, at a meeting of the chiefs of the Six Nations at Albany, Governor Burnett procured from them a deed surrendering their country to his majesty the…
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