Stevens v. Goodenough
Supreme Court of Vermont
Appeal in Chancery. Heard on demurrer to the bill at the March Term, 1909, Washington County, Stanton, Chancellor. Demurrer overruled; bill adjudged sufficient and taken as confessed; and decree for the orators. The defendant appealed. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtHaselton, J.
This bill is brought for the removal of a cloud upon the orators’ title to their home farm, in Moretown, alleged to consist of about 100 acres with a double house, barn and outbuildings thereon. The bill alleges that the defendant claims title to the premises in question through a tax sale thereof as the property of the orator Mead, and J. Eli Goodenough, husband of the defendant. The bill alleges that the said J. Eli never had any interest in the premises but that he acquired a pretended interest through an execution sale of the interest of the oratrix Mary A. Stevens, which sale was invalid…
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