Doolittle v. Holton
Supreme Court of Vermont
Ejectment for certain lands in Lyndon. Plea, the general issue, and trial by jury. On the trial the plaintiffs offered in evidence: 1. A copy of a deed from Calvin Doolittle to Jesse Doolittle, dated February 12, 1797, of certain lands in Lyndon, including the land in controversy. 2. Copies of certain probate records, relating to the settlement of the estate of said Jesse Doolittle ; and particularly the granting of letters of administration on said estate to Riverius Burt,…
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Ejectment for certain lands in Lyndon. Plea, the general issue, and trial by jury. On the trial the plaintiffs offered in evidence: 1. A copy of a deed from Calvin Doolittle to Jesse Doolittle, dated February 12, 1797, of certain lands in Lyndon, including the land in controversy. 2. Copies of certain probate records, relating to the settlement of the estate of said Jesse Doolittle ; and particularly the granting of letters of administration on said estate to Riverius Burt, Feb. 24, 1807. The appointment of William CahooD and two others as a committee to set out dower in said estate to Eunice…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Redeield, Ch. J.
The court have found it difficult to come to a full agreement upon all the questions which might be raised in this case. But we think it better not to require a further argument in its present form, inasmuch as we agree that it is proper the case should be opened, and be remanded to the county court for a fuller investigation of the facts.
The case is in some of its leading features similar to Hazard v. Martin, 2 Vt. 77, but in many important particulars, in its present form, it is'far more defective than that case. It may be true, that…
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