Howard v. . Moot
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial department, affirming judgment in favor of plaintiffs, entered upon a verdict. (Reported below 2 Hun, 475; 5 T. & G, 427.) This was an action of ejectment to recover possession of 100 acres of land in Livingston county, part of the “ Pulteney estate ” so called. (For the general history of the title under which plaintiff claimed, see 3 Seld., 305; 41 If.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial department, affirming judgment in favor of plaintiffs, entered upon a verdict. (Reported below 2 Hun, 475; 5 T. & G, 427.) This was an action of ejectment to recover possession of 100 acres of land in Livingston county, part of the “ Pulteney estate ” so called. (For the general history of the title under which plaintiff claimed, see 3 Seld., 305; 41 If. Y., 397.) Plaintiffs introduced in evidence an exemplification from the Court of Chancery of depositions taken in proceedings under the act to perpetuate…
1Opinion of the CourtAllen, J.
The plaintiffs bring their action to recover the possession of a parcel of land in the county of Livingston, in the possession of the defendant, to which they make title through-several mesne conveyances from the State of Massachusetts. The lands in controversy are a part of the tract ceded to that State by the treaty and deed of cession between it and the State of New York, made on the 16th day of December, 1786. The title of the plaintiffs rests mainly upon documentary evidence, and has been very frequently before the courts of this State, and been sustained hitherto against the objections…
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