Cuffee v. Milk
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Writ of entry to recover a tract of land in Westport, known as the Allen lot. Trial, on the issue of nul disseizin, before Shaw, C. J. whose report was as follows : The demandant claimed title under Paul Cuffee, his grandfather, who died seized of the estate, and who made a will, which, after his decease in.1817, was duly proved and allowed.
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Writ of entry to recover a tract of land in Westport, known as the Allen lot. Trial, on the issue of nul disseizin, before Shaw, C. J. whose report was as follows : The demandant claimed title under Paul Cuffee, his grandfather, who died seized of the estate, and who made a will, which, after his decease in.1817, was duly proved and allowed. The will contained the following clause : “ Also I give to my son, William Cuffee, and to his oldest male heir forever, the lot of land which I bought of Ebenezer Eddy, called the Allen lot.” The testator also bequeathed to said William some personal…
1Opinion of the CourtWilde, J.
The demandant claims under the will of his grandfather, Paul Cuffee, who died seized of the demanded premises. The words of the devise are, “ also, I give to my son William Cuffee, and to his oldest male heir forever, the lot of land which I bought of Ebenezer Eddy, called the Allen lot.” Some personal property also was bequeathed to the said William, together with $300 to enable him to build a house on the lot devised.
It was contended on the part of the demandant, at the trial, that he, being the eldest son of the said William, took a remainder under the will; but this construction of the…
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