Legal Opinion

Cushman v. Davis

Supreme Court of Vermont

Decided July 11, 1906PublishedCited by 8 opinions

AppEae in Chancery, Washington County. Heard at Chambers, November 21, 1905, on the pleadings, master’s report and defendant’s exceptions thereto, Rowell, Chancellor. Decree for the orator. The defendant appealed." Unless there is a dwelling house owned by the housekeeper actually on the place, or one in process of erection and designed for a home, there is no homestead.

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AppEae in Chancery, Washington County. Heard at Chambers, November 21, 1905, on the pleadings, master’s report and defendant’s exceptions thereto, Rowell, Chancellor. Decree for the orator. The defendant appealed." Unless there is a dwelling house owned by the housekeeper actually on the place, or one in process of erection and designed for a home, there is no homestead. Rice v. R%idd, 57 Vt. 6; Pease, Admr., v. Sherlock, 63 Vt. 622; Bugbee v. Bends, 50 Vt. 216; Thorp v. Thorp, 70 Vt. 46; Woodbury v. Warren, 67 Vt. 251; Whiteman v. Field, 53 Vt. 554. Spaulding and his wife both left the…

1Opinion of the CourtMides, J.

This is a bill in chancery to remove a cloud from the alleged title of the orator to certain real estate in Charleston, Vt., which he claims to own by virtue of a series of conveyances beginning with a quitclaim deed from George C. Spaulding to E. W. Stevens, bearing date April 15, 1904.

The alleged cloud is a quitclaim deed of the same real estate from Spaulding and his wife, Ellen M. Spaulding, to the defendant, bearing date December 3, 1904.

The bill was answered, but no replication was filed or made in the case within the rule, nor before the parties met for hearing before the master. At…

2Cases cited17 opinions

  1. West River Bank v. GaleSupreme Court of Vermont · 1869
  2. Davis v. AndrewsSupreme Court of Vermont · 1858
  3. Martin v. HarringtonSupreme Court of Vermont · 1901
  4. Whiteman v. FieldSupreme Court of Vermont · 1881
  5. True v. Estate of MorrillSupreme Court of Vermont · 1856

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3Cited by8 opinions

  1. McCray v. Miller &8212 Bland v. BlandSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1919
  2. In Re BrentUnited States Bankruptcy Court, D. Vermont · 1987
  3. Bernstein v. Held (In Re Bernstein)United States Bankruptcy Court, D. Vermont · 1986
  4. In Re WhiteUnited States Bankruptcy Court, D. Vermont · 1982
  5. In Re DetkoUnited States Bankruptcy Court, D. Vermont · 2003

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