Murray v. Wooden
New York Supreme Court
This was an action of ejectment tried at the Seneca circuit in Mayr, 1834, before the Hon. Daniel Moseley, one of the circuit judges. In 1791, letters patent issued to John Sagorahasee, an Oneida Indian, who served as a lieutenant in the revolutionary war, granting to him lots No. 33 and 93, in Junius.
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This was an action of ejectment tried at the Seneca circuit in Mayr, 1834, before the Hon. Daniel Moseley, one of the circuit judges. In 1791, letters patent issued to John Sagorahasee, an Oneida Indian, who served as a lieutenant in the revolutionary war, granting to him lots No. 33 and 93, in Junius. On the 28th February, 1810, William, the son and heir of John Sagorahasee, by deed bargained, sold, remised, released and quit-claimed lot No. 93 to John B. Murray and John P. Mumford. On [532] the 5th March, 1810, the surveyor-general of the state endorsed on the deed a certificate approving…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Nelson, Ch. J.
Many of the important questions presented in this case arose on the deed of Smith, under whom the present defendant holds, in the case o Goodell v. Jackson, deciued in the court for the correction of *302errors in 1823 (2, Johns. R. 693). Military lots No. 33 and 93 in the township of Junius, were conveyed, or rather attempted to be conveyed by that deed, by W. Sagorahasee, the son and sole heir of the patentee. In that case, Smith, the lessor, brought the action to recover possession of No. 33, and failed; the present action is brought by the heirs of a subsequent…
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