Armstrong v. Colby
Supreme Court of Vermont
Trespass qua. clau. Plea, tlie general issue, and trial by jury, December term, 1874, Pierpoint, Oh. J., presiding. It was conceded that the defendant Palmer had the legal title to lot No. 54, in the first division of lands in Lincoln, in the county of Addison, and that he and his grantors had been in possession of the same for more than forty years. The defendants claimed that the land in dispute was part of said lot.
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Trespass qua. clau. Plea, tlie general issue, and trial by jury, December term, 1874, Pierpoint, Oh. J., presiding. It was conceded that the defendant Palmer had the legal title to lot No. 54, in the first division of lands in Lincoln, in the county of Addison, and that he and his grantors had been in possession of the same for more than forty years. The defendants claimed that the land in dispute was part of said lot. The alleged trespasses were committed under the direction of said Palmer. Simeon Palmer, father of the defendant Palmer, died seised of said lot, and had owned and occupied the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Wheeler, J.
As the plaintiffs acquired their title from Patience Burroughs, and the defendants theirs from Simeon Palmer, and the action of ejectment that she brought against him was for the possession of the same land that is in dispute in this action, any judgment in that action would be between parties to whom the parties in this action are respectively privies, and about the same subject matter, and be conclusive upon these parties as to all matters adjudicated in it. The court properly looked into its own docket entries to see what had been done by…
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