French v. Gray
Supreme Court of Connecticut
THIS was an action of ejectment brought to recover the seisin and possession of a lot of land and a dwelling-house ⅛ Huntington. The action was commenced in Jlpril, 1815. The cause was tried at Danbury, September term 1816, before Trumbull, Smith and Baldwin, Js.
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THIS was an action of ejectment brought to recover the seisin and possession of a lot of land and a dwelling-house ⅛ Huntington. The action was commenced in Jlpril, 1815. The cause was tried at Danbury, September term 1816, before Trumbull, Smith and Baldwin, Js. On the trial, the plaintiff claimed title to the land in question, by virtue of a mortgage deed, executed by David Stratton to William Bennett, dated July 1st, 1786 5 and also, by virtue of a. quit-claim deed of the same land, executed to the plaintiff, by Bennett, together with one Samuel Curtis, whose claim or title, if any, did…
1Opinion of the Court
Tkumbcu,, J.
This case depends chiefly on the construe tion of the statutes of this state respecting the conveyance of title to real estate, and the limitations of time, within which a right of entry remains in the grantee against actual settlers and cultivators.
The case is briefly this. One Stratton, who had the legal estate of the land in question, by his deed, dated July 1st.. 1786, mortgaged it to William Bennett, in whose hands the deed lay unrecorded, for the space of about twenty-five years. On the 19th day of January 1789, Bennett, together with one Curtis, (whose claim or title, if…
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