Griswold v. Bragg

At the September term, 1879, of this court, the jury returned a verdict, in an action of ejectment, in favor of the present defendants against the present plaintiff, that they recover the seizin and possession of an undivided fourth part of a tract of land in the town of Chester. Upon motion of the defendant in the ejectment suit, judgment and execution were stayed until further order. He thereupon filed a supplemental bill on the equity. side of the court. This bill, after setting out the state statute hereinafter recited, commonly called the “Betterment Act,” alleges, in substance, that the…