Corbin v. Jackson ex dem. Garnsey
Court for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors
Error from the supreme court. Garnsey and the other lessors of the plaintiff brought an action of ejectment against Corbin to recover a lot of land, part of a large tract of 15,-360 acres, granted by letters patent in 1787 to M. Treat and W. Morris, and produced in evidence a deed covering the premises in question, bearing date 12th September, 1792, purporting to have been executed to Marie Jeane IF Autremont and others, by Charles Felix Bue Be Bouloigne, as the attorney in…
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Error from the supreme court. Garnsey and the other lessors of the plaintiff brought an action of ejectment against Corbin to recover a lot of land, part of a large tract of 15,-360 acres, granted by letters patent in 1787 to M. Treat and W. Morris, and produced in evidence a deed covering the premises in question, bearing date 12th September, 1792, purporting to have been executed to Marie Jeane IF Autremont and others, by Charles Felix Bue Be Bouloigne, as the attorney in fact of Treat and Morris, the patentees, by virtue of a power óf attorney alleged to have been executed by Treat and…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinions were delivered:
By the Chancellor.
The right of the lessors of the plaintiff in the court below to recover the premises in question in this cause, the south half of lot No. 80, in Treat and Morris’ patent, depends upon the validity of the deed of September, 1792, to Le Fevre and wife and Madame D’Autremont. This deed is for 600 acres of land, and purports to be executed by Treat and Morris, under whom both parties claim title, by Charles Felix Bue De Bouloigne, their attorney. It was duly acknowledged and recorded as early as 1796. It recites the granting of a patent to…
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