May v. Adams
Supreme Court of Vermont
Bill in Chancery. Bill pro forma and without hearing dismissed at the September Term, 1885, Veazey, Chancellor. This case was heard at the January Term, 1885, of the Supreme Court, and decided at the next term of said court.
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Bill in Chancery. Bill pro forma and without hearing dismissed at the September Term, 1885, Veazey, Chancellor. This case was heard at the January Term, 1885, of the Supreme Court, and decided at the next term of said court. It was alleged in the bill, among other facts: “ That in order to have said deeds describe said line so agreed upon accurately, the said parties applied to Charles Abell of Orwell, in the county of Addison, who was a surveyor, and who had formerly surveyed said tract of land, and who had an old map of the same, to obtain and give to them the course and direction of said…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Walkek, J.
The bill was brought to reform certain partition deeds executed by and between Marshall T. Doane and Levi B. Doane of a parcel of land which they owned as tenants in common, and of which divided portions the orator and defendant are now the owners as the grantees from said Levi and Marshall.
It clearly appears from the evidence that Marshall T. Doane and Levi B. Doane in December, 1875, agreed upon a division of the parcel of land described in the orator's bill of complaint, which they held as tenants in common, by adopting as the division…
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