Wright v. Delafield & Curtis
New York Supreme Court
APPEAL by the plaintiff, from a judgment entered at a special term. In the year 1835, the executors, &c., of Bobert Mitchell, deceased, the trustees of creditors of the firm of Carnochan & Mitchell, and six other persons in their own right, being the proprietors in various proportions of a tract of land, in Florida, between the St. Mark’s and Apalachicola rivers, containing about one million two hundred thousand acres of land, known as the Forbes’ Purchase, entered into an…
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APPEAL by the plaintiff, from a judgment entered at a special term. In the year 1835, the executors, &c., of Bobert Mitchell, deceased, the trustees of creditors of the firm of Carnochan & Mitchell, and six other persons in their own right, being the proprietors in various proportions of a tract of land, in Florida, between the St. Mark’s and Apalachicola rivers, containing about one million two hundred thousand acres of land, known as the Forbes’ Purchase, entered into an agreement dated on the 25th of November of that year, reciting that, to enable the proprietors to give clear and…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Mitchell, J.
Previous to "November, 1835, Peter, John, Thomas and Collin Mitchell, Richard Camochan, Thomas Yermilyea, B. W. Rogers, John Graham and Benjamin Marshall were interested in lands in Florida, known as Forbes & Co.’s purchase, and amounting to about 1,200,000 acres. Their title had been in dispute, but was confirmed by a decision of the supreme court of the United States. On the 28th of November, 1835, they agreed that each proprietor should vest, by regular deeds, the whole title to the .lands, legal and equitable, in three trustees, and that the affairs of the…
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- Hosford v. NicholsNew York Court of Chancery · 1828
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