Paine v. Consumers' Forwarding & Storage Co.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Ohio. This action was brought by George E. Paine in his lifetime against the Consumers’ Forwarding & Storage Company and the Pennsylvania Dock Company to recover two pieces of real estate in the village of Fairport, Lake county, Ohio.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Ohio. This action was brought by George E. Paine in his lifetime against the Consumers’ Forwarding & Storage Company and the Pennsylvania Dock Company to recover two pieces of real estate in the village of Fairport, Lake county, Ohio. The land in controversy consisted of two parallel strips about 17 feet wide and 571 feet long, lying within the boundaries and on the east and west sides of a vacated street known as “Water Street.” The village of Fairport was first known as the town of…
1Opinion of the CourtTaft, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts). Seymour Austin owned the title to the strips here in controversy. Against his devisee and legal representative, the decree of the common pleas court established that Lemuel Storrs had acquired title to the same two strips. If Storrs did not convey the strips here during his lifetime, they descended on his death to his heirs by whose quitclaim deeds they passed to the plaintiff below. It is conceded that Storrs did not convey any part of Water street to any one by specific description. Did his deeds conveying the lots bounding on vacated Water street convey the fee…
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