Davis v. Moyles
Supreme Court of Vermont
Trespass under V. S. 5020. Plea, the general issue. Trial by Court at the March Term, 1902, Windham County, Rowell, C. J., presiding. Judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepted. The grant of February 13, 1770, shows title in James Rogers and his associates. The deed from his associates to him was signed, sealed and witnessed, and it must be presumed to- be in accordance with the legal requirements then existing.
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Trespass under V. S. 5020. Plea, the general issue. Trial by Court at the March Term, 1902, Windham County, Rowell, C. J., presiding. Judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepted. The grant of February 13, 1770, shows title in James Rogers and his associates. The deed from his associates to him was signed, sealed and witnessed, and it must be presumed to- be in accordance with the legal requirements then existing. Middlebury College v. Cheney, 1 Vt. 336; Brown v. Bdson, 23 Vt. 435. This instrument existed before any statute required an acknowledgment; it was long acquiesced in, and was…
1Opinion of the CourtWatson, J.
This action is trespass qucere clausum fregit for treble damages, under Vermont Statutes Sec. 5020, for *29cutting timber standing and growing on land in the town of Londonderry. The trial was by the Court. The plaintiff claimed title by deed to the locus in quo, and in order to show it, introduced in evidence, subject to the defendant’s objections and exceptions, certified copies of divers instruments- and records. Hereupon the principal questions before us arise.
The plaintiffs introduced without objection a certified copy of the New York Charter of the township of Kent, now Londonderry and…
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