Park v. Pratt
Supreme Court of Vermont
This was an action of ejectment for the recovery of the possession of a tract or parcel of land in Bennington, and was, by the agreement of the parties and a rule of court, referred to the determination of a referee, whose report was, agreeably to the said rule of reference, returned to the county court at the June Term, 1865. It appeared from the referee’s report that Lafayette Lyon and Nancy Booth, the wife of Roger Booth, were tenants in common of a piece of land.
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This was an action of ejectment for the recovery of the possession of a tract or parcel of land in Bennington, and was, by the agreement of the parties and a rule of court, referred to the determination of a referee, whose report was, agreeably to the said rule of reference, returned to the county court at the June Term, 1865. It appeared from the referee’s report that Lafayette Lyon and Nancy Booth, the wife of Roger Booth, were tenants in common of a piece of land. On the 12th day of January, 1847, they made partition thereof by deeds. On the first day of April, 1847, Roger Booth conveyed…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Peck, J.
The action is ejectment. The case was referred to a referee by the county court, and upon a special report of the referee the county court rendered judgment for the plaintiff to recover the whole of the strip of land described in the report as in dispute. The defendants except to that decision.
The plaintiff claims title to the small strip of land through a chain of deeds commencing with a deed from one Booth.,..and ending with *549a deed from M. C. Hall to the plaintiff and his wife, to have and to hold during their lives, and the life of the…
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