Shaw v. Beebe
Supreme Court of Vermont
Ejectment for a store, and the land upon which it stood, in Rupert. The case was referred, and the referee reported the following facts: David Sheldon, who owned the land in question previous to May 1st, 1852, on that day conveyed it, with .other land surrounding it, to the Rutland and Washington Railroad Company.
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Ejectment for a store, and the land upon which it stood, in Rupert. The case was referred, and the referee reported the following facts: David Sheldon, who owned the land in question previous to May 1st, 1852, on that day conveyed it, with .other land surrounding it, to the Rutland and Washington Railroad Company. About the time of this conveyance to the railroad company, that corporation gave permission to Henry Shaw and Washington Kinne to erect a store on the land in question. The parties to whom this permission was given, agreed between themselves that Henry Shaw should erect the store,…
1Opinion of the CourtAldis, J.
It is to be observed in this case that at the time Washington Kinne deeded one-half of the premises in question to Lyman Kinne, the record title was in the railroad company. Washington Kinne was in possession of the land, claiming to own one-half, and that Henry Shaw owned the other half; but as neither of them had received any deed or lease from the railroad company, there was no way by which a purchaser could ascertain the respective interests of Washington Kinne and Henry Shaw in the land, except by inquiry of them. Hence Lyman Kinne, when he took the deed from Washington Kinne, was…
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