Jackson v. Cole
New York Supreme Court
THIS was an action of ejectment, in which the plaintiff elaim edseven-eighths of a piece of land, containing about seventy acres, lying in lot No. 46. in the town of Aurelius, m the county of Cayuga, as being, in fact, part of the adjaeen! lot No. 37. to which the plaintiff claimed title, on the ground of a mistake in the original survey and location these lots.
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THIS was an action of ejectment, in which the plaintiff elaim edseven-eighths of a piece of land, containing about seventy acres, lying in lot No. 46. in the town of Aurelius, m the county of Cayuga, as being, in fact, part of the adjaeen! lot No. 37. to which the plaintiff claimed title, on the ground of a mistake in the original survey and location these lots. The cause was tried before the late Chief Justice, at the Cayuga circuit, in June, 1818. ' The plaintiffs produced in evidence a patent, dated the r 1 e r ? 24th of September, 1792, issued in pursuance of the act to ■* * carry into…
1Opinion of the Court
Spencer, Ch. J. delivered the opinion of the court.
The lessors of the plaintiff claim title to seven-eighths of the premises in the possession of the defendants, respectively, as part of lot No. 37. in Aurelius ; and the defendants, independently of objections to the plaintiff’s deduction of title, insist, that the premises are part of lot No. 46. in the same town.
In deciding this case, we do not deem it necessary to examine, or decide, the several questions made as to the deduction of title by the lessors of the plaintiff, but we proceed entirely on tjie location of the lots.
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