Campau v. Lafferty

Action of ejectment to recover possession of forty acres of land, which the plaintiff in his declaration claims as owner in fee. .

On the trial the plaintiff endeavored to make out a paper title, and claimed that he did so to the extent of seven undivided twenty-fourths. _ Three parts of these seven were claimed through a deed from Catherine Lafferty, mother of the defendant, made to Joseph and Barnabas Campau in 1845, and the other four parts through a partition deed of the estate of Joseph Campau, who was supposed to own them before the deed by Catherine Lafferty was made.

The defendant…