Ellwood v. . Northrup
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial department, entered upon an order made April 21, 1885, which affirmed a judgment in favor of defendant entered upon a decision of the court on trial without a jury. The nature of the action and the material facts are stated, in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Ruger, Ch. J.
This was an action of ejectment to recover an undivided three-fifths part of a parcel of one hundred and thirty acres of land in Jefferson county, by the male heirs of one Peggy Ellwood.
The plaintiffs claim to have acquired title to such land "under the will of their grandfather, Oasper J. Lieb, who died in March 1846. By such will Lieb devised to his daughter, Peggy Ellwood, one hundred and thirty acres of land, being j>art of a farm of three hundred and twenty-five acres purchased by him of Eli Watson, the conveyance of which was made to Adam W. Walrath in “ trust for my sole…
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