Deery v. Cray
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an action of ejectment brought in the Circuit Court for the District of Maryland, by Eliza C. Deery, to recover an undivided third part of a tract of land, called Kent Fort Manor, on Kent Island, in Queen Anne’s County, Marryland. The defendants were Cray, Bright, and others, occupying different-parts of the tract. Miss Deery, the plaintiff, was the daughter of Elizabeth Chew, who married William Deery, and afterwards, in second marriage, Eli Beatty.
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This was an action of ejectment brought in the Circuit Court for the District of Maryland, by Eliza C. Deery, to recover an undivided third part of a tract of land, called Kent Fort Manor, on Kent Island, in Queen Anne’s County, Marryland. The defendants were Cray, Bright, and others, occupying different-parts of the tract. Miss Deery, the plaintiff, was the daughter of Elizabeth Chew, who married William Deery, and afterwards, in second marriage, Eli Beatty. The Elizabeth Chew thus married was the daughter of Samuel Lloyd Chew the younger, who died about the year 1796, intestate, leaving the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Miller
delivered the opinion of th.e court, and — having stated the facts of the offer of the copy of the deed from the executors of W. Brent, and of the offer of the mass of testimony designed to show that possession had so passed with the deed, and had been held under 'and in consistency with it for such a length of time as to raise' a presumption of the truth of one or both the recitals in"it— went on as .follows,:
Before we .proceed to examine .the.sufficiency of this evidence for the purpose for which it was offered, we. shall'notice a criticism of defendants’ counsel in regard to the matter in…
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