Watson v. Watson
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was an action of ejectment; tried at Hartford, September term, 1833, before Church, J. The plaintiffs claimed to have proved a title to the lands described in the declaration ; and that the defendant was in possession thereof, at the commencement of the suit.
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This was an action of ejectment; tried at Hartford, September term, 1833, before Church, J. The plaintiffs claimed to have proved a title to the lands described in the declaration ; and that the defendant was in possession thereof, at the commencement of the suit. It was admitted, that the title to these lands was once in Ebenezer Bliss, who died in the year 1786, having devised them to John Bliss, who died soon afterwards, intestate, leaving Ann Watson, one of the plaintiffs, his sole heir. The defendant claimed, that after the death of Ebenezer Bliss and John Bliss, Anne Bliss, the widow…
1Opinion of the Court
Daggett, Ch. J.
The plaintiffs’ title is derived from John Bliss, who died intestate, leaving Ann Watson, one of the plaintiffs, his sole heir. John Bliss obtained the land, by devise of his father, Ehenezer Bliss, in whom the title was vested until his death, as is agreed by the parties. The defendant insists, that his title is well derived from the will of the late John Watson sen., who became well seised, by purchase of and a deed from Anne Bliss, executrix of the last will and testament of the aforesaid Ehenezer Bliss, by virtue of an order of the court of probate of the district of…
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