Greene v. . Couse
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial department, entered upon an order made April 11888, which affirmed a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict directed by the court. The nature of the action and the facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtPotter, J.
The action is ejectment and was brought to recover possession of an undivided one-twelfth part of the premises described in the complaint. The answer was a denial of the complaint, also title in the defendant, also title in the defendant arising from adverse possession of the premises for more than twenty years, and a counter-claim.
The premises as claimed in the complaint consist of one hundred and twenty acres in the north-west comer of the east half of Great Lot ISTo. 24, Evans Patent in Delaware County.
It was stipulated by the defendant for the purpose of this appeal, that the plaintiff…
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