Graves v. . White
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the fourth judicial department, entered upon an order made the second' Tuesday of June, 1880, which affirmed a judgment in favor of plaintiff, entered upon the report of a referee. The nature of the action and the material facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtFinch, J.
' This was an action of ejectment. The defense was a general denial and a claim of adverse possession. The plaintiff established a legal title to the land in1 dispute. The defendant showed no title, and failed entirely to prove an adverse possession. He had no defense to the action, unless the written agreement between his grantor, Mattison, and the plaintiff for an exchange of lands was available for that purpose. That agreement, however, he repudiated. The referee finds upon -sufficient evidence that the defendant at first proposed to carry out the agreement for an exchange, to which tjie…
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