Scofield v. Lockwood
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Ejectment ; tried in the Superior Court, on the general issue closed to the court, before Sanford J. Judgment for the defendant, and motion for a new trial by the plaintiff. The general principles involved in the case will be sufficiently .understood from the opinion, without a statement of the facts, which are complicated and could not be understood without a map of the premises.
1Opinion of the CourtHinman, C. J.
The question in this case is, whether the demanded premises passed to the defendant by his deed from Wells R. Rich, administrator of Nelson Scofield, dated the 9th day of July, 1857. That deed purported to convey forty-five acres of land, more or less, and bounds it on the south by land of Peter Scofield and the estate of Ezekiel Scofield, and the only other important boundary, so far as this case is concerned, the westerly, is not given, but the deed refers for a more particular description to a deed from Charles Brown, administrator of Ezekiel Scofield, to the aforesaid Nelson Scofield, of…
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