Landon v. Clark
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. This cause comes here upon appeal from a decree of the Unitea States District Court for the Southern District of New York, which decree was entered on March 23, 1914, and which adjudged that the defendants did not have, either of them, any estate, right, title, or interest whatever in certain lands and premises described in the bill of complaint, and enjoining them from asserting any…
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. This cause comes here upon appeal from a decree of the Unitea States District Court for the Southern District of New York, which decree was entered on March 23, 1914, and which adjudged that the defendants did not have, either of them, any estate, right, title, or interest whatever in certain lands and premises described in the bill of complaint, and enjoining them from asserting any claim in the said lands adverse to the complainant. Thomas Durland Landon, the plaintiff herein, is. a resident of…
1Opinion of the Court
ROGERS, Circuit Judge.
[1] The plaintiff seeks to quiet title to certain real estate which he claims to own in fee simple and to have in possession, and which is under water, known as Wickham’s Pond, *842in the town of Warwick, in the county of Orange, and state of New York. The plaintiff derives title through a deed made June 30, 1906, by Jesse Durland conveying to Thomas D. Landon in fee simple 650 acres of land, more or less, describing the same by metes and bounds and adding:
•‘And also all the lands under water belonging to said Durland in what is known as Wickham’s Pond in said town being all…
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