Thompson v. . Burhans
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, affirming a judgment in favor of the plaintiff, entered upon the report of a referee.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, affirming a judgment in favor of the plaintiff, entered upon the report of a referee. (Reported below, 61 Barb., 260.) This was an action of ejectment brought to recover the possession of certain lands situate in the county of Essex, being, as the plaintiff in his complaint alleges, five undivided sixteenth parts of 4,000 acres of land in the northerly part of township number forty-seven, in the division of what was known as Totten and Crossfield’s purchase into townships, and bounded on the north…
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The plaintiff claims the land in controversy as being the northerly portion of township number forty-seven, in Totten and Crossfield's purchase. The defendants claim that the land is not in that township, but that it is a gore lying north of that township, and between it and the south line of Macomb's purchase. The referee found, upon sufficient evidence, that there is no such gore, and that the north line of township number forty-seven is a portion of the southerly line of Macomb's purchase. The defendants claim the land under a patent from the State, dated May 29th, 1864, in which the land…
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