Bridge v. Eggleston
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This was a writ of entry, in which the demandant counted upon his own seisin of the estate demanded within thirty years, and upon a disseisin by the tenant. Trial was had upon the general issue before Putnam, J., April term, 1816. The demandant claimed under an execution, which he levied upon the demanded premises, as the property of Joseph Goodwin, on the 15th- of November, 1811, in due form of law.
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This was a writ of entry, in which the demandant counted upon his own seisin of the estate demanded within thirty years, and upon a disseisin by the tenant. Trial was had upon the general issue before Putnam, J., April term, 1816. The demandant claimed under an execution, which he levied upon the demanded premises, as the property of Joseph Goodwin, on the 15th- of November, 1811, in due form of law. The tenant claimed to hold the premises under a deed of conveyance from the same Goodwin, dated the 6th of October, 1809, acknowledged and recorded. The demandant undertook to prove that the said…
1Opinion of the CourtParker, C. J.
The evidence objected to at the trial, and now made the ground of a motion for a new trial, is that which relates to certain conversations and declarations of Goodwin, the grantor of Eggleston, and the judgment debtor, in the judgment whicli was attempted to be satisfied by a levy on the land demanded in this action.
* The substance of the conversation proved is, that Goodwin expected to be ruined by being connected with the Berkshire Bank as a director ; and that he thought it best to pay as little of his debts as possible, and intimated an intention to submit to imprisonment in Albany, in…
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