Forbes v. . Halsey

This is an action of ejectment brought to recover two village lots in the town and village of Ithaca. The wife of the plaintiff claims the premises as the heir-at-law of her father, Stephen B. Munn, junior, who died October 13, 1840, intestate, being the owner of and seised in fee of said lots: that he left him surviving the wife of the plaintiff and a son, his heirs-at-law: that the said son had since deceased, leaving a son his only heir-at-law. The defendant was in possession of the premises, and claimed to hold the same by title derived as follows:

On the 31st of October, 1840, the…