West v. Pine
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of New Jersey
This was an ejectment [by Elizabeth L. West and others against Daniel Pine and others] to recover two hundred and forty acres of land called the ‘Windmill Tract.”
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This was an ejectment [by Elizabeth L. West and others against Daniel Pine and others] to recover two hundred and forty acres of land called the ‘Windmill Tract.” After proving that Deborah West, and her husband, Thomas West, lived upon the premises until liis death in 1770, and she continued to live on the land, during the residue of her life time, and that she died seised thereof sometime about December, 1778, leaving by her husband Thomas, three children, Charles, the eldest, Joseph and Mary: the plaintiffs’ counsel gave in evidence the will of Deborah West, dated the 30th of March, 1777,…
1Opinion of the CourtWashington, Circuit Justice
(charging jury). There ¿re two questions which arise in this cause. The first is, whether the plaintiffs have shown a sufficient title on which to recover in this suit? If they have, then second, Whether that title is barred by the act of limitations.
1. The plaintiffs’ title, as laid before you by their counsel, is soon stated. They have proved the uninterrupted possession of the land in dispute by Mrs. Deborah West, from the death of her husband in 1770, till the latter end of 1778, when she died seised, and by her will, after sundry bequests to others, none of which refer to the wind mill…
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