Keeler v. Eastman
Supreme Court of Vermont
The orator’s bill stated, in substance, that Seba Eastman, in October 182S, executed a lease of a certain farm, described in the bill, to the defendant and his wife, during their natural lives, and afterwards, in February 1832, conveyed his reversionary interest in the farm to the orator.
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The orator’s bill stated, in substance, that Seba Eastman, in October 182S, executed a lease of a certain farm, described in the bill, to the defendant and his wife, during their natural lives, and afterwards, in February 1832, conveyed his reversionary interest in the farm to the orator. The bill then alleged that the defendant had committed waste on the premises, and especially upon a sugar orchard, by cutting down and carrying away and selling the wood and timber growing thereon, and concluded with a prayer for an injunction to stay further waste, and that the defendant might be decreed to…
1Opinion of the Court
The substance and amount of the testimony will appear from the opinion of the court, delivered by
Bennett, Chancellor.
The great subject of complaint seems to be the destruction of the sugar orchard, which it is alleged has been cut down and destroyed since the orator became possessed of the reversionary interest, in February 1832. It is unnecessary to go into the particulars of the evidence, which is quite voluminous, and is evidently somewhat contradictory; but suffice it to say that it seems to be pretty well established from the current of the testimony, that the principal part of the…
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