Pratt v. Battles
Supreme Court of Vermont
Trespass for a quantity of wood. Plea, the general issue, and trial by jury, at the January term, 1860, Barrett J., presiding. The plaintiff gave evidence tending to prove that the defendant took a large quantity of wood from lots 47 and 48, in Brain-tree. To make title to the wood and lots she gave in evidence a record copy of a deed from Jacob Spear to herself and others, dated July 1, 1802, by which said lots were conveyed to her.
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Trespass for a quantity of wood. Plea, the general issue, and trial by jury, at the January term, 1860, Barrett J., presiding. The plaintiff gave evidence tending to prove that the defendant took a large quantity of wood from lots 47 and 48, in Brain-tree. To make title to the wood and lots she gave in evidence a record copy of a deed from Jacob Spear to herself and others, dated July 1, 1802, by which said lots were conveyed to her. The plaintiff was married to Charles Pratt previous to the execution of the deed to her, and soon after said deed was executed she and her husband moved on to…
1Opinion of the CourtPeck, J.
This is an action of trespass for a quantity of wood. Plea, the general issue and trial by jury. The cause comes here upon exceptions to several rulings of the county court in the course of the trial.
It appears from the case that the wood in question had been cut upon lots Nos. 47 and 48, in the first division of lands in Braintree,-previous to the taking by the defendant in 1849, complained of in the declaration. Both parties seek to make title to the wood by showing title to the land on which it was cut. The plaintiff introduces -a deed from Jacob Spear to her, dated July 1, 1802, with…
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