Porter v. Hill

This was a writ of entry sur disseisin in the per, wherein three several parcels of land lying in Biddeford are demanded. The demandant counts upon his own seisin within thirty years, and alleges a disseisin by John Pitts, who demised to the tenant. On the trial of the general issue, the jury found a special verdict, containing the following facts, viz.: That John Tyng, being seised in fee simple of a large tract of land, including the demanded premises, sold the same in fee to Benjamin Nason, Jun., and Ezekiel Bradstreet, in joint-tenancy, who afterwards reconveyed the land to the said Tyng,…