Hodges v. Eddy
Supreme Court of Vermont
Ejectment for a parcel of land in Clarendon. Plea, the general issue, and trial by jury, September Term, 1864, Rutland County, Kellogg, J., presiding. The plaintiff and defendant were adjoining land owners. The territory comprising their farms formerly belonged to Dr. Silas Hodges.
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Ejectment for a parcel of land in Clarendon. Plea, the general issue, and trial by jury, September Term, 1864, Rutland County, Kellogg, J., presiding. The plaintiff and defendant were adjoining land owners. The territory comprising their farms formerly belonged to Dr. Silas Hodges. At the decease of Dr. Hodges certain lands belonging to his estate, in pursuance of his will, were divided by commissioners, one portion to his widow, and the remainder in equal portions to two of his sons and heirs, Silas W. Hodges, the father of the plaintiff, and Hannibal Hodges, the uncle of the plaintiff,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Poland, Ch. J.
The plaintiff and defendant are the owners of adjoining farms, and the title of each is conceded. The controversy between them relates wholly to the boundary of division line between their farms.
The strip of land lying between the two controverted lines is about nine rods wide at the west end, and runs to a point at the east end, where the two lines meet, and is over two hundred rods in length.
At the trial, both parties claimed that the land in controversy was embraced within their respective title deeds, and if the plaintiff had…
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