Doe ex dem. Clinton v. Campbell
New York Supreme Court
THESE were actions of ejectment, for lot No. 4. in Young's patent, and tried at the last 'Otsego circuit, before Mr. Justice r o’ Thompson. mi,. -LUC The suits were commenced the 18th January, 1809 plaintiff produced in evidence the following conveyances"; cf‘patent £o Frederick Young and 19 other persons,r dated 11th October, 1765, including the lot in question; a -release from four of the patentees to Peter Du Bois-, dated 9th September,-1766; a release from five other of…
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THESE were actions of ejectment, for lot No. 4. in Young's patent, and tried at the last 'Otsego circuit, before Mr. Justice r o’ Thompson. mi,. -LUC The suits were commenced the 18th January, 1809 plaintiff produced in evidence the following conveyances"; cf‘patent £o Frederick Young and 19 other persons,r dated 11th October, 1765, including the lot in question; a -release from four of the patentees to Peter Du Bois-, dated 9th September,-1766; a release from five other of the patentees to Philip Livingston, dated 1st May, 1767; a release from Du Bois and Livingston and all the other…
1Per curiam
There was proof of title on the part of some of the lessors of (he plaintiff to at least eighteen twentieths of the premises claimed in each of the above causes, and the jury would have been warranted in presuming a title even to the remaining two parts. The release to Van Dam, in 1767, of the title of all the twenty patentees except two, was made for the purpose of making partition; and as he afterwards conveyed to DuBois, and Du Bois to White and others, in trust, and the trustees to Franklin, the ancestor of three of the lessors of the plaintiff, and as it was proved that all the lots in…
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