Pratt v. Battels
Supreme Court of Vermont
Trespass for taking a quantity of wood. Plea, tbe general issue; trial by jury, January Term, 1856, — Underwood, J., presiding.
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Trespass for taking a quantity of wood. Plea, tbe general issue; trial by jury, January Term, 1856, — Underwood, J., presiding. The plaintiff claimed title to the land on which the wood was cut, under a deed from her father to her before her marriage with Charles Pratt, in 1804, the said Charles having died in 1848. It appeared that in 1807 the said Charles and the plaintiff executed a deed of the premises to a person under whom, as well as under a vendue title, other persons now claimed to hold the premises, but the deed had no certificate of its having been acknowledged by the plaintiff…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Ishabi, J.
Several questions have been raised during the argument of this case, some of which, it is unnecessary, at present, to decide. If the plaintiff’s title to this land is sufficient to enable her to recover its possession in the action of ejectment, yet, as those under whom the defendant acted were, and for a long .time had been in the actual adverse possession of the premises, she cannot sustain an action of trespass on the freehold for cutting the trees from which the wood in question was derived. Whether her title to the land would vest in her…
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