Thompson v. Burhans
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from á judgment in favor of the plaintiff, entered upon the trial of this action by the court without a jury. The action was brought to recover an undivided five-sixteenths of a parcel of land claimed by the plaintiff to be a part of township No. 47, in Totteii & Crossfield’s purchase, in Essex county, and bounded off the north by the soiith line of Macomb’s purchase, while the defendants claim it to be a gore, situated between the north line of said township No. 47…
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Appeal from á judgment in favor of the plaintiff, entered upon the trial of this action by the court without a jury. The action was brought to recover an undivided five-sixteenths of a parcel of land claimed by the plaintiff to be a part of township No. 47, in Totteii & Crossfield’s purchase, in Essex county, and bounded off the north by the soiith line of Macomb’s purchase, while the defendants claim it to be a gore, situated between the north line of said township No. 47 and the south line of Macomb’s purchase. The plaintiff' claimed title under a comptroller’s deed conveying three tracts,…
1Opinion of the Court
Westbrook, J.:
This is an appeal from a judgment rendered in an action of ejectment in favor of the plaintiff. It was tried before Mr. Justice Sawyer without a jury, at the Essex Circuit, in May, 1877, and that was the second trial of the action, which was brought to recover an undivided five-sixteenths of a parcel of land in the north part of township No. 47, in Totten and Crossfield’s purchase, in Essex county. The defendants claim that the land is not in that township, but that it is a gore lying north thereof, *582and between it and the south line of Macomb’s purchase. On the first trial of…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Thompson v. . BurhansNew York Court of Appeals · 1874
- Thompson v. BurhansNew York Supreme Court · 1870