Jackson v. May
New York Supreme Court
THIS was án action of ejectment, which was commences and tried in the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Greene, and in which á verdict was taken by bonsent for the plaintiff, subject to the opinion of this Court, on a case to be made between the parties, Qn the 15 th of August, 1814, one John Van Den Bergh executed a lease of the premises in question, being a m‘^sea^ with the privilege of cutting timber for erecting buildings, to Samuel and Alvin S. Smith, for fifteen…
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THIS was án action of ejectment, which was commences and tried in the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Greene, and in which á verdict was taken by bonsent for the plaintiff, subject to the opinion of this Court, on a case to be made between the parties, Qn the 15 th of August, 1814, one John Van Den Bergh executed a lease of the premises in question, being a m‘^sea^ with the privilege of cutting timber for erecting buildings, to Samuel and Alvin S. Smith, for fifteen years, at 0 , , , ,, , an annual rent. By articles or agreement, dated the 22d of November, 1814, S. and A. F. Smith, who…
1Per curiam
There is no doubt, that at the date of the agreement between the Smiths and Saxton, (22d November, 1814,) the former had the title, and were competent to make an assignment or under lease to Saxton: but the pretended lease to Saxton having never been actually located, and, thereby (as it might have been,) reduced to certainty, it is, per se, too vague and indefinite to be the foundation of aa action of ejectment. He was “ to have the privilege of putting a carding machine at the mills of John Van Der Bergh f1 and “ to fix the machine at the wheel or shaft now built for a fulling mill at the…
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