Hickory Farm Oil Co. v. Buffalo, N. Y. & P. R.

By consent of the parties, a verdict was taken in favor of the plaintiff, subject to the opinion of the court as to the law, upon the following agreed state of facts:

“(1) It is admitted that the plaintiff has a good record title to the land described in the writ, which is part of a larger tract, containing in all about 400 acres, purchased by and conveyed to plaintiff in 1864.

“(2) That the plaintiff is a corporation, organized under the laws of New York, in the year 1864, under the provisions of an act of the legislature of *23the stale of New York entitled ‘An act to authorizes the formation of…