Gilkey v. Shepard
Supreme Court of Vermont
Appeal from the Court of Chancery. The bill alleged that the orators, Laura Gilkey, Louisa Buck-man, and Harriet Gibbs, wives respectively of the orators Charles Gilkey, William Buckman, and Ethan R. Gibbs, and the orators Rebecca Shepard, and Roland M. Shepard, with the defendant John W. Shepard, and Lucy Emeline Jones, wife of Sylvester Jones, were all the children of Lucy Shepard, late of Windsor, deceased; that on November 15, 1833, Asa Aikens, then a resident of…
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Appeal from the Court of Chancery. The bill alleged that the orators, Laura Gilkey, Louisa Buck-man, and Harriet Gibbs, wives respectively of the orators Charles Gilkey, William Buckman, and Ethan R. Gibbs, and the orators Rebecca Shepard, and Roland M. Shepard, with the defendant John W. Shepard, and Lucy Emeline Jones, wife of Sylvester Jones, were all the children of Lucy Shepard, late of Windsor, deceased; that on November 15, 1833, Asa Aikens, then a resident of Windsor, by deed of that date in due 'form, conveyed to the defendant John W. and his heirs and assigns forever, certain land…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Redfield, J.
Asa Aikens conveyed the premises in question to John W. Shepard in trust and for the uses, among others, “ to permit Mrs. Lucy Shepard, the mother of the said John W., to receive the rents and profits of said premises to her sole and separate use during her coverture with her present husband, and, after the termination of said coverture, to convey the same' to her during her life and the remainder to her children and their heirs forever.” The deed was .executed November 15, 1833. The defendant William Jones avers in his plea that he is' the…
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