Duke of Cumberland v. . Graves
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from the general term of the Supreme Court, in the seventh district, where a motion for a new trial had been denied, and judgment entered in favor of the plaintiff, in a case tried before the court, without a jury.
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Appeal from the general term of the Supreme Court, in the seventh district, where a motion for a new trial had been denied, and judgment entered in favor of the plaintiff, in a case tried before the court, without a jury. (Reported below, 9 Barb. 595.) This was an ejectment for a lot of ground in Prattsburgh, in Steuben county, constituting a part of'the lands known as the Pulteney estate, which the plaintiffs claimed as the trustees thereof. *On the trial before Marvin, J., without a jury, „ ... the plaintiff having deduced title to Charles *- Williamson, for a large tract of land, of which…
1Opinion of the CourtRuggles, C. J.
On the 11th of April 1792, Robert Morris being seised in fee-simple of the premises in controversy, conveyed the same to Charles Williamson, in trust for Sir William Pulteney, an alien. On the 31st of March 1801, Charles Williamson and his wife released the same premises to Sir William Pulteney. This release was executed while the act of 2d April 1798 was in force; by the first section of that act it was enacted, “that all and every conveyance or conveyances, hereafter to be made or executed, to any alien or aliens, not being the subject or subjects of some sovereign state or power which is,…
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