Patch v. Keeler
Supreme Court of Vermont
Sufficiency and construction of report of commissioners to set out dower, fyc. Ejectment. Constructive possession of grantee of land. Ejectment for a piece of land described by metes and bounds, “ also two stalls at tbe south-west corner of the horse barn, stand- “ ing a few rods westerly of the small barn above described, and “ near the south-west corner of the piece of land above described.
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Sufficiency and construction of report of commissioners to set out dower, fyc. Ejectment. Constructive possession of grantee of land. Ejectment for a piece of land described by metes and bounds, “ also two stalls at tbe south-west corner of the horse barn, stand- “ ing a few rods westerly of the small barn above described, and “ near the south-west corner of the piece of land above described. “ Also twelve feet square on the loft over said stalls for hay, being “ a portion of the same premises set off as widow’s dower to Mary “ Wood, from the estate of Elijah Wood.” Plea, the general issue;…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered at the circuit session in September by
Bennett, J.
This is an action of ejectment brought to recover the possession of a certain parcel of land described by metes and bounds in the declaration, and also of two stalls in the horse-bam of the intestate Elijah Wood, in his life time, at the south-west corner of the same, and twelve feet square over said stalls for hay.
The title of Elijah Wood in his life time was admitted, and the wife of N. W. Patch was one of six hems to his estate, and as such entitled to one-sixth of the estate. The plaintiffs claim title…
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