Davis v. Culver
New York Supreme Court
Present, S. B. Strong, Brown and Rockwell, Justices. This was an action brought for the recovery of an undivided fourth part of a farm in Amenia, Dutchess county, containing about two hundred and sixty-two acres, worth about sixty dollars per acre; and was tried before Dean, Justice, at the Dutchess circuit on the 13th Dec., 1854. These were lands of which Joshua Culver, the father of the defendant Bachus C., died seized on the 12th day of June, 1848, leaving the said Bachus…
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Present, S. B. Strong, Brown and Rockwell, Justices. This was an action brought for the recovery of an undivided fourth part of a farm in Amenia, Dutchess county, containing about two hundred and sixty-two acres, worth about sixty dollars per acre; and was tried before Dean, Justice, at the Dutchess circuit on the 13th Dec., 1854. These were lands of which Joshua Culver, the father of the defendant Bachus C., died seized on the 12th day of June, 1848, leaving the said Bachus and the plaintiff, and Almyra Hoffman and Roxana Hoag, wife of Ezra B. Hoag, his only-children, and heirs at law. The…
1Opinion of the Court
By the court—Brown, Justice.
The plaintiff is one of the heirs at law of Joshua Culver, deceased, and this action is brought to recover one fourth part of a farm in the town of Amenia, Dutchess county, of which, it is alleged, Joshua Culver, the ancestor, died seized.
The defendant Bachus Culver is the son of Joshua Culver, *66deceased, and claims title to the lands under a deed of conveyance from his father, bearing date May 13,1848. Joshua, the father, died on the 12th June, 1848. The deed is executed in due form, and conveys the premises in dispute; the consideration expressed in the deed being…
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