Quarles v. Quarles
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This was a writ of entry, in which the demandants counted upon their own seisin within twenty years, and upon a disseisin by the tenant.
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This was a writ of entry, in which the demandants counted upon their own seisin within twenty years, and upon a disseisin by the tenant. The tenant pleads that the demandants are not entitled to their action, because Francis Quarles, father of the tenant, and grandfather of the demandants, had children, viz., Francis, the tenant, Elizabeth, .wife of Nathaniel Potter, and Samuel, father of the demandants; and the said Francis, the father, having, on the 17th of August, 1785, assigned and delivered to his son Samuel a full portion of the estate of the said Francis, the father, by advancement,…
1Opinion of the CourtSedgwick, J.
The facts presented in this case for the consid eration of the Court are, that the demandants are the children and heirs of Samuel Quarles, deceased, who was the son and one of the heirs of Francis Quarles, who is also deceased ; that the tenant is another son of F. Quarles; that on the 17th of August, 1785, F. Quarles, last mentioned, conveyed to the father of the demandants certain real estate, by a deed purporting to be for a valuable consideration ; * and the son, on the same day, [ * 682 ] made and executed a deed to his father, in which he acknowledged that, in consideration of his…
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