Griswold v. Butler
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was an action of ejectment, brought in March 1818, for land in Windsor, being part of the real estate that belonged to Mercy Wéller, deceased. The cause was tried at Hartford, February term, 1819, before Trumbull, Hosmer and Peters, Js.
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This was an action of ejectment, brought in March 1818, for land in Windsor, being part of the real estate that belonged to Mercy Wéller, deceased. The cause was tried at Hartford, February term, 1819, before Trumbull, Hosmer and Peters, Js. The plaintiff claimed the land in question as heir at law to Mercy Weller, who was the only child of Hezekiah Griswold; and, in support of this claim, read a deed of bargain and sale from one Elihu Griswold, conveying the demanded premises to said Hezekiah, dated the third of April, 1786, when the latter went into possession. On an application by the…
1Opinion of the Court
Hosmer, Ch. J.
The deed of Hczelciah Griswold, executed with the consent of his conservator, was undoubtedly void. The statute concerning idiots and others takes the property placed under the conservation of another out of his custody, and suspends his right to dispose of it. Although neither an idiot nor lunatic, the person in ward is dealt with as if he were of that character ; and the putting him under a conservator is in the nature of a commission on the writ de lunatico inquirendo. Gibson v. Jeyes, 6 Ves. 273. Dridgeway v. Darwin, 8 Ves. 65. Ex parte Cranmer, 12 Ves. 445. Barker's case, 2…
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