Legal Opinion
Chapman v. Griffin
Connecticut Superior Court
Decided July 15, 1790PublishedCited by 3 opinions
Action of ejectment. The plaintiff’s title was the levy of an execution in A. D. 1789, duly made. The defendant sets up title under a levy made upon the same lands in A. D. 1783. All the appraisers were agreed upon by the creditor pnd debtor, but one of them did not belong; to the town where the land lay.
1Opinion of the Court
Judgment was for the plaintiff; upon the ground, that the statute is express, that the land shall be appraised by freeholders of the same town; and the agreement of the parties cannot alter the law.
2Cited by3 opinions
- Towns of Groton & Ledyard v. HurlburtSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1852
- Metcalf v. GilletSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1824
- Mitchell v. KirtlandSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1828