Stacy v. Bostwick
Supreme Court of Vermont
Ejeotment. Plea, the general issue, and trial by referee, who reported as follows: The land in question comprises about a quarter of an acre, and is so much of five-acre lot No. 96 as lies on the west side of North Avenue in the city of Burlington. ' The plaintiff put in evidence the records of a series of deeds covering the land in dispute, commencing with one from E. T. Englosby to the United States, dated August 24, 1812, and forming a chain of title down to Nathan B.…
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Ejeotment. Plea, the general issue, and trial by referee, who reported as follows: The land in question comprises about a quarter of an acre, and is so much of five-acre lot No. 96 as lies on the west side of North Avenue in the city of Burlington. ' The plaintiff put in evidence the records of a series of deeds covering the land in dispute, commencing with one from E. T. Englosby to the United States, dated August 24, 1812, and forming a chain of title down to Nathan B. Haswell, in whom the title to the entire lot vested by deed from Heman Allen to Mm, dated April 22, 1844, ho having from…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Redfield, J.
This action is ejectment, and founded on the facts stated in the referee’s report. The plaintiff’s intestate received a deed of the land from John Thompson, Oct. 10, 1845, and personally occupied the land until the year 1848, and then leased it by parol to Anson Bostwick, who occupied it as tenant until he died, in 1865. During the years 1861 and 1862, the referee is unable to find that the said Bostwick did any ostensible act upon the premises. But from 1845 until 1861, the report distinctly states that Stacy, by himself and his tenant…
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