Mallory v. Hitchcock
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Bill in equity, to obtain the title to^ certain real estate, and for an injunction against the pi-osecution of an action of ejectment. The facts were specially found by the superior court. The land in question was an undivided moiety of a tract of eighty-five acres, which moiety formerly belonged to Cynthia Geer, the wife of David Geer.
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Bill in equity, to obtain the title to^ certain real estate, and for an injunction against the pi-osecution of an action of ejectment. The facts were specially found by the superior court. The land in question was an undivided moiety of a tract of eighty-five acres, which moiety formerly belonged to Cynthia Geer, the wife of David Geer. In 1829, David Geer, and Cynthia his wife, who then owned the tract as tenants in common, and in the wife’s moiety of which he had a life estate as tenant by the curtesy, mortgaged the land, by their joint deed, to the First Ecclesiastical Society of the town…
1Opinion of the CourtHinman, J.
This is a bill, the object of which is to cause the defendant to be enjoined from prosecuting an action of disseisin, to recover possession, as tenant in common with the plaintiff, of eighty-five acres of land. Whatever of difficulty there is in the case seems to arise principally from the compli*134caiic a of the numerous facts in respect to the title, and to vanish op such ?y .ement of them as to be easily understood, which can be' ' accomplished without a very particular reference to a: me various documents referred to and recited in the record.
In 1829 David Geer and his wife Cynthia owned the…
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