Jackson ex dem. Boyd v. Lewis
Court for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors
THIS was an action of ejectment, brought to recover lot No. 94, in the township of Brutus, in the county of Cayuga, in the military tract. For the facts of the case and the opinion of the Supreme Court, vide vol. 13, p. 504. On the trial of the cause below, the jury found a verdict for the defendant; and a case was made, on which the plaintiff moved to set aside the verdict and for a new trial; and the motion was denied by the Supreme Court.
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THIS was an action of ejectment, brought to recover lot No. 94, in the township of Brutus, in the county of Cayuga, in the military tract. For the facts of the case and the opinion of the Supreme Court, vide vol. 13, p. 504. On the trial of the cause below, the jury found a verdict for the defendant; and a case was made, on which the plaintiff moved to set aside the verdict and for a new trial; and the motion was denied by the Supreme Court. The case having been turned into a special verdict, a writ of error was brought, returnable to this court.
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
In this case, the plaintiff, Boyd, claimed title to the military lot by a deed from B. Wallace, of the 16th of September, 1799, and the Onondaga commissioners awarded the title to Wallace, on the 29th of August, 1798, and he claimed under a deed from Bevins, the soldier, of 2d of March, 1796. Rut Bevins, under whom both parties claimed title, had already conveyed the premises to Henry Hart, on the 9th of March, 1784, and Hart died in June, 1787 ; Herman V. Hart, his son and only heir at law, was born the 7th of September 1784, and he filed his dissent to the award of the…
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