The People v. . Snyder
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court at General Term, in the seventh district, affirming a judgment /for the defendant. / This action was brought to recover the possession of one hundred and ten acres of land, situated in the town of Spring-water in Livingston county, and for damages for wrongfully witholding it from the plaintiff.
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Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court at General Term, in the seventh district, affirming a judgment /for the defendant. / This action was brought to recover the possession of one hundred and ten acres of land, situated in the town of Spring-water in Livingston county, and for damages for wrongfully witholding it from the plaintiff. The defendant claimed possession under William, earl of Craven, Alexander Oswald and Edmund Buclmall Estcourt, who were alleged to own the premises as trustees in fee. At the trial of tie action, before the Circuit Court held in Livingston county,i\ verdict…
1Opinion of the Court
A very great number of objections were taken by the plaintiff's counsel to the admission of evidence upon the trial of this cause, which have been fully argued in the brief presented to the court on the part of the appellant. But it will be entirely unnecessary to consider and dispose of them in detail, under the view which has been taken of the case. The title upon which the defendant relied for his defence is identical with that, in many respects, upon which the real property of nearly the entire western portion of this State depends. Its early history is a matter of general notoriety and…
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