Baldwin v. Atwood
Supreme Court of Connecticut
The plaintiffs brought their action of ejectment against Warren Atwood, for a tract of land, situated in the town of Windham. The cause came to the October term of the superior court for the county of Windham, and was reserved for the advice of this court, upon the following agreed statement of facts.
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The plaintiffs brought their action of ejectment against Warren Atwood, for a tract of land, situated in the town of Windham. The cause came to the October term of the superior court for the county of Windham, and was reserved for the advice of this court, upon the following agreed statement of facts. On the 17th day of December, 1831, Daniel Sessions, the ancestor of the plaintiffs, conveyed the land in question, by a deed duly executed, to Apollos Perkins, William C. Boon, Luther Jacobs, Jonathan Fuller, Ralph Williams, Asa White, Leonard R. Dunham, Sydney Cook and William C. Boon, Jr., and…
1Opinion of the CourtStorrs, J.
We are of opinion that the plaintiffs have no legal title to the demanded premises, and therefore, that they have no right to recover.. It is clear that the estate conveyed by the deed from Daniel" Sessions has not expired by the terms of the limitation contained in it. If there are wanting, in that conveyance, *371such words of perpetuity as are necessary, in order to pass an estate in fee to the grantees, (a point which it is unnecessary here to determine,) it conveys an estate at least for life to the latter, and as it neither appears, nor is claimed, that any of those grantees have deceased,…
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