Den v. Crawford
Supreme Court of New Jersey
A state of the case had been agreed upon by the parties .as follows: This cause came on for trial at the Circuit Court for the county of Monmouth, before Gabriel H. Ford, Esq., one of the Justices of the Supreme Court, at the sitting of that Court in the term of October, 1823, by a jury of the same county; and the counsel who opened the cause on the part of the plaintiff, stated to the jury that the object of the suit was to recover about twenty-eight acres of undivided land…
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A state of the case had been agreed upon by the parties .as follows: This cause came on for trial at the Circuit Court for the county of Monmouth, before Gabriel H. Ford, Esq., one of the Justices of the Supreme Court, at the sitting of that Court in the term of October, 1823, by a jury of the same county; and the counsel who opened the cause on the part of the plaintiff, stated to the jury that the object of the suit was to recover about twenty-eight acres of undivided land in the possession of the defendant, being the one-third part of the-one-fourth "part of a certain farm called the…
1Opinion of the Court
Ewing, C.
J.—The premises in question in'this action of ejectment are the one third part of the one fourth part of a farm in the township of Middletown in the county of Monmouth, called the nut'swamp farm; of which one fourth part Eleanor Lyell became seized and possessed under the will of her father Edward Taylor, the other three parts belonging under the same will to her children John, Fenwick and Mary, then the wife of Benjamin Micheau; two of these three parts, belonging to John and Fenwick, remaining with her fourth part'in common and undivided, and the other of those three parts or the…
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