Holton v. Whitney
Supreme Court of Vermont
Ejectment for a piece of land in Putney. Plea, tlie general issue, and trial by jury, at tlie September Term, 1856, — Underwood, J., presiding.
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Ejectment for a piece of land in Putney. Plea, tlie general issue, and trial by jury, at tlie September Term, 1856, — Underwood, J., presiding. The plaintiff put in evidence a deed from David Leavitt to Mercy Steele, dated September 12, 1822, of a tract of land in Putney, containing forty acres, and also a deed of the same land from the administrator of Mercy Adams’ estate to the plaintiff, dated March 27 th, 1850. It appeared on trial that Mercy Steele, under whom the plaintiff claimed, was married to Daniel Adams in 1822, that Adams died in 1838, and his widow, Mercy, in 1849, Adams and his…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Pierpoint, J.
The case shows that in April, 1828, Mercy Adams, the wife of Daniel Adams, and the person under whom the plaintiff claims title to the land in question, and Theophilus and David Crawford, the persons under whom the defendant claims title, were the owners of adjoining tracts of land; that Daniel Adams, by virtue of his rights as the husband of the said Mercy was in the possession and occupation of the tract owned by her, and that the Crawfords were in the occupation of the tract belonging to them; that prior to 1828, there had been no…
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