Starr v. Starr
Ohio Supreme Court
This was a suit in chancery reserved for decision here, in Cuyahoga county. It was in the nature of a quia timet bill, and its object was to disembarrass certain lands of a title set up to them by the defendants, Truman Starr and Giles Griswold. The complainant derived title under certain proceedings in ¡attachment prosecuted by him against Ephraim and William Starr.
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This was a suit in chancery reserved for decision here, in Cuyahoga county. It was in the nature of a quia timet bill, and its object was to disembarrass certain lands of a title set up to them by the defendants, Truman Starr and Giles Griswold. The complainant derived title under certain proceedings in ¡attachment prosecuted by him against Ephraim and William Starr. The attachment was sued .out of the common pleas of Cuyahoga •county, on the 13th day of May, 1819; the lands in question were ■attached, and such proceedings had that they were sold and purchased by the complainant, and a…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court:
The complainant claims title under a sale upon execution, founded on a judgment rendered at law, in action of covenant commenced by attachment. This judgment can not be here controverted. It is conclusive that Ephraim Starr owed him the debt, for which it is rendered at the time stated in the proceedings, and places him in the attitude of a creditor, entitled to contest the fairness of the title which the defendant set up to the land in dispute.
This title is a deed of conveyance from Ephraim Starr to Truman Starr, dated May 1, 1817. The deed is produced, and upon inspection, it…
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