Legal Opinion

Jackson ex dem. Bond v. Root

New York Supreme Court

Decided May 15, 1820PublishedCited by 17 opinions

-EJECTMENT for part of lot.No. 41, in Pompey, tried at the last Onondaga circuit, before Mr. Justice Platt. 5* I herp]aintin claimed under one Christian Brandt, a soldief in the first Nem-York regiment, and produced, t. an ex-emplification of the patent, dated July 8, 1790, and passed the office of the Secretary of State, January 25, 1792. 2. deed from Christian Brandi to Bernard Bond, one of thé lessors of the plaintiff, dated September 6, 1782, but admit-ted to have been…

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-EJECTMENT for part of lot.No. 41, in Pompey, tried at the last Onondaga circuit, before Mr. Justice Platt. 5* I herp]aintin claimed under one Christian Brandt, a soldief in the first Nem-York regiment, and produced, t. an ex-emplification of the patent, dated July 8, 1790, and passed the office of the Secretary of State, January 25, 1792. 2. deed from Christian Brandi to Bernard Bond, one of thé lessors of the plaintiff, dated September 6, 1782, but admit-ted to have been executed some time in the spring of 1795, antedated, with two subscribing witnesses, acknow-ledged March 10, 1795, before…

1Opinion of the Court

Spencer, Ch. J.

delivered the opinion of the Court. To show a possession prior to the defendant’s, under the same title, the defendant was permitted to prove, that the premises had been possessed under a contract with one Jabez Cobb, which contract was presumed to have been given up, when another contract was made by J. B. Clarke with the defendant. The first contract with Cobb, was in September or October, 1800, and the second, for the same land, with the defendant, in July, 1802. It was shown, that in June, 1801, Cobb went, under the contract, upon the premises, part of lot No. 41 in Pompey,…

2Cited by17 opinions

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  5. Mott v. DoughtyNew York Supreme Court · 1800

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