Conner v. Chase
Supreme Court of Vermont
This was an appeal from a decree of the court of chancery. The orator, in his bill, which was entered March term 1836, -alleged, — That, on the 22d day of January, 1824, he was seized in fee simple of five acres of land, part of the south west corner of lot 41, in Sheffield, with a saw mill privilege ; that he had in contemplation to build a saw-mill on said lot, and to that end, purchased of John Chase forty five dollars worth of saw-mill irons, and to secure to said Chase…
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This was an appeal from a decree of the court of chancery. The orator, in his bill, which was entered March term 1836, -alleged, — That, on the 22d day of January, 1824, he was seized in fee simple of five acres of land, part of the south west corner of lot 41, in Sheffield, with a saw mill privilege ; that he had in contemplation to build a saw-mill on said lot, and to that end, purchased of John Chase forty five dollars worth of saw-mill irons, and to secure to said Chase the payment of said sum and interest, on the 23d day of January 1825, conveyed to said Chase, in fee simple, said land,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Williams, Ch. J.
This cause has been elaborately argued at this term and at two previous terms. It would have been decided at the last argument but that the members of the court who heard it, immediately separated and had not the opportunity for consultation which was desired. At every argument the court, or at least a majority of them, have been agreed in the result to which we have now arrived, and in this result the court, are at this time, unanimous. It appears that in the year 1823, the orator purchased a tract of land of about five acres, in…
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