Townsend v. Estate of Downer
Supreme Court of Vermont
Ejectment for lot No. fifty of the eighth division in that part of Burlington now annexed to Williston, containing twenty-three acres. Plea not guilty and trial by the court at the November Term, 1857, Bennett, J., presiding.
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Ejectment for lot No. fifty of the eighth division in that part of Burlington now annexed to Williston, containing twenty-three acres. Plea not guilty and trial by the court at the November Term, 1857, Bennett, J., presiding. The plaintiff introduced in evidence a certified copy from the records of deeds, &c., in the town clerk’s office in Williston, of a certified copy of the record of the proceedings of the probate court for the district of Chittenden on the 19th of September, 1849, allowing a copy of the will of Thomas Youngs to he filed and recorded in that court, and allowing and…
1Opinion of the CourtAldis, J.
This is an action of ejectment to recover lot No. 50 in the eighth division in Burlington, containing twenty-three acres.
The plaintiff, to recover, shows that Thomas Youngs was one of the original proprietors of the town of Burlington ; that in the division of the town the land in question was set to his right, and that he by his will devised that right of land to the plaintiff.
It is admitted in the case, or found by the court, that Thomas Youngs died in September-, 179-7; that at the time of his death the plaintiff was a feme covert, and so continued to August., 1843, when her husband died,…
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