Sisson v. Seabury
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Rhode Island
Ejectment [by Philip Sisson and others against Cornelius Seabury] for land in Ti-verton, Rhode Island. Plea, general issue.
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Ejectment [by Philip Sisson and others against Cornelius Seabury] for land in Ti-verton, Rhode Island. Plea, general issue. The parties agreed to a special statement of facts as follows: ‘‘On the 20th day of August, A. D. 1775, Thomas Sisson, then of Tiver-ton, Rhode Island, being of sound mind and competent to make a will, made and duly executed his last will and testament, in the words and figures, as set out in the certified copy thereof marked A. herewith filed as part of this agreement, and admitted as sufficient evidence of the said will, and the probate thereof; and the said Thomas…
1Opinion of the Court
STORY, Circuit Justice.
The principal ■question in this case turns upon a devise in the will of Thomas Sisson, made in 1775. It is in the following words: “Item, I give and bequeath to my loving grandson, Philip Sis-son, all my homestead farm and housing thereon standing, lying part in said Tiver-ton, and part in the township of Dartmouth, in the province of Massachusetts Bay, with all my other lands, and salt meadows, and sedge flats in said Dartmouth, to him, my said grandson Philip Sisson, and to his male children lawfully begotten of his body, and their heirs for ever, to be equally…
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