Cook v. Knowles

The land in controversy is claimed by the plaintiff under an attachment levied in November, 1854. Defendant claims it under a conveyance made by John R. Tuttle, the attachment debtor, dated prior to the attachment, but recorded December 1, 1854. In this deed Benjamin Knowles was grantee, and he appears to have gone into possession of the land near the time when the deed was recorded, but the precise time is not shown, and in 1870 he conveyed to defendant. The principal question on this record arises upon offers made by the plaintiff to show declarations of John R. Tuttle and Benjamin Knowles…