Moody v. Seaman

Mrs. Seaman, the defendant in error, commenced summary proceedings to recover possession of land, claiming the right of possession as tenant in dower, and guardian of her infant children. She was, at the time of her marriage to Mr. Seaman, widow of John W. Pardee, who had owned the land during his life. The defendant below claimed in his own testimony to have gone into possession under a verbal agreement of sale, for a price of six hundred dollars which was to be paid by payments of seventy dollars a year, but which, as he showed, had not been • paid except by some early payments about ten…