Stevens v. . Hauser
New York Court of Appeals
This is an action of ejectment brought in the Superior Court, New York, to recover possession of a lot of land on Forty-sixth street, New York. Action commenced 22d June, 1861. Answer, a general denial. On the trial before the. Court and a jury, 26th February, 1863, a verdict was ordered for the Defendant, subject to the opinion of the Court at General Term. The General Term ordered judgment for the Defendant, and made a statement of facts.
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This is an action of ejectment brought in the Superior Court, New York, to recover possession of a lot of land on Forty-sixth street, New York. Action commenced 22d June, 1861. Answer, a general denial. On the trial before the. Court and a jury, 26th February, 1863, a verdict was ordered for the Defendant, subject to the opinion of the Court at General Term. The General Term ordered judgment for the Defendant, and made a statement of facts. The facts, as disclosed on the trial, were: The lot was Mo. 182, on the Hermitage Farm. The said farm was in the actual occnpation of John L. Morton,…
1Opinion of the Court
[EDITORS' NOTE: THIS PAGE CONTAINS HEADNOTES. HEADNOTES ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL PRODUCT OF THE COURT, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT DISPLAYED.] The verdict in this case having been taken by consent, subject to the opinion of the court upon the questions of law, we are to take it as conceded, that there is no disputed question of fact in the case.
The facts, therefore, upon which the questions of law arise, are to be found in the "statement of facts," settled by the General Term of the Superior Court, upon which the judgment appealed from proceeded.
By these, it appears, that, in 1825, the title to the…
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