Roberts v. Morgan
Supreme Court of Vermont
Ejectment for four acres of land in Manchester. Plea, not guilty, and trial by the court, at the June Term, 1857, — Kittred&e, J., presiding.
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Ejectment for four acres of land in Manchester. Plea, not guilty, and trial by the court, at the June Term, 1857, — Kittred&e, J., presiding. The plaintiff proved that Joseph French, who owned the land described in the declaration, with other lands in Manchester, died jn 1814, leaving a widow and several children; that the land declared for, with two other pieces of land, were set off as dower to his widow, Mary French; that Martin French, one of his sons, owned the reversionary interest in two-thirteenth parts of said dower, and conveyed on the 2d day of December, 1826, by quit claim deed,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Poland, J.
The defendant objects to the correctness of the judgment of the county court upon several grounds.
I. The defendant claims that he has acquired a valid title to the interest of Silas Sutherland, in the land sued for by an adverse possession of more than fifteen years, in himself, and those under whom he claims title.
It appears to have been conceded on the trial below, that in March, 1839, the piece of land in question, and another piece, were properly set out as the share of Martin French, in certain lands which had been set out to and…
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