Davis v. Judge
Supreme Court of Vermont
Ejectment for land in the village of Brattleboro. Plea, the general issue, and trial by jury, September term, 1873, Barrett, J., presiding. The plaintiff, to maintain the issue on his part, gave in evidence a deed from Wm. Barnes to Wm. Pulsipher, dated February 3, 1827 ; copy of record of the probate of Wm.
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Ejectment for land in the village of Brattleboro. Plea, the general issue, and trial by jury, September term, 1873, Barrett, J., presiding. The plaintiff, to maintain the issue on his part, gave in evidence a deed from Wm. Barnes to Wm. Pulsipher, dated February 3, 1827 ; copy of record of the probate of Wm. F. Pulsipher’s will, August 15, 1838, devising the lands he owned in Brattleboro, to David Ball; deed, E. B. Wales to John Simonds, August 6,1850 ; same to G. W. Esterbrook, same date; Samuel Ball and others to David Ball, September 26, 1851; David Ball to J. H. & W. H. Esterbrook, April…
1Opinion of the Court
*673The opinion of the court was delivered by
Redfield, J.
The deed from Joseph Clark to James Elliott, July 1st, 1801, describes the land conveyed as one acre, “ beginning one and one half rods north of the north-east corner of the house now occupied by said Sinead; thence running southerly, bounded by the west side of the highway,” &c. The description is the same in the deed of said Elliott to Noah Sabin 3d, May 26, 1803, with a different description of the starting point, viz, “ Beginning about four feet north of the N. E. corner of the house now occupied by said Banister; thence running…
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