Williams v. Bass
Supreme Court of Vermont
Trespass de bonis asporfatis for taking certain logs from land of the plaintiff in Braintree. Plea, the general issue, and trial by jury, May Term, 1S49, — Kellogg, J., presiding. On trial the plaintiff, to prove his title to the land in question, offered in evidence, among other testimony, a copy from the office of the town clerk of Braintree, of a deed from Elijah French to Ezra Weld, dated February 3, 1795, purporting to convey the same land.
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Trespass de bonis asporfatis for taking certain logs from land of the plaintiff in Braintree. Plea, the general issue, and trial by jury, May Term, 1S49, — Kellogg, J., presiding. On trial the plaintiff, to prove his title to the land in question, offered in evidence, among other testimony, a copy from the office of the town clerk of Braintree, of a deed from Elijah French to Ezra Weld, dated February 3, 1795, purporting to convey the same land. The deed contained a condition, that it was to become void, upon the payment of a specified sum of money by the grantor to the grantee, within three…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Kellogg, J.
This was an action of trespass for taking and carrying away certain mill logs from the plaintiff’s land in Braintree. The plaintiff, to prove his title to the premises, gave in evidence, under objections, an office copy of a deed from Elijah French to Ezra Weld, dated February 3, 1795. To the admission of this deed two objections are urged; — 1.. That the copy contained nothing indicating that the original was sealed ; — 2. That the deed was conditional, and subject to be defeated upon the payment of a sum therein specified, and there being…
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