Hill v. Meeker
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was an action of ejectment, brought to the superior court for Fairfield county, by William H. Hill and others, against Francis Meeker, to which the defendants pleaded the general issue.
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This was an action of ejectment, brought to the superior court for Fairfield county, by William H. Hill and others, against Francis Meeker, to which the defendants pleaded the general issue. The plaintiffs, who were the children and heirs at law of John L. Hill, deceased, claimed title to the demanded premises by virtue of a mortgage deed, from Arza Meeker to said John L., conditioned for the payment of two promissory notes, together amounting to $5,900. By agreement of the parties, the finding of the committee, appointed by the court in the case of Hill and others v. Meeker, 23 Conn. R.,…
1Opinion of the CourtHinman, J.
In this action, the plaintiffs seek to recover two tracts of land, situated in Reading, which were deeded to their ancestor, John L. Hill, by a mortgage deed, executed December 4th, 1840, by Arza Meeker, to secure the payment of two notes, then due to the grantee, and now held by the plaintiffs, and which have not been paid. There is no controversy in respect to the title to most of the land demanded. But the dispute is confined to twenty acres, parcel of one of the tracts, to which the defendant claims that Arza Meeker never had any title, and consequently conveyed none, by his mortgage…
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