Brooks v. Fairchild

Marston, J:

Defendant in error brought an action of ejectment, and obtained judgment therein, for certain lands in Van Burén county. It appears that the lands were patented by tbe United States May 1, 1839^ to Samuel Sherwood and Joseph D. Beers. On the trial, plaintiff produced a deed purporting to have been signed by Sherwood and wife and Beers and wife November 25, 1839, conveying the land to William Humble. There was but one subscribing witness to this deed. It purported to have been acknowledged December 16, 1839, in the city and county of New York, before Wm. H. Etting, commissioner of…