Poor v. Robinson
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This is a writ of right, in which the said Enoch Poor, Caleb Poor, Thomas Poor, Hannah Whittier, Phcebe Plummer, Sarah Poor, Nancy Robinson, Susan Frye, and Polly Lovejoy, demand two lots of land in Bridgetown, in this county, numbered seven and eight.
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This is a writ of right, in which the said Enoch Poor, Caleb Poor, Thomas Poor, Hannah Whittier, Phcebe Plummer, Sarah Poor, Nancy Robinson, Susan Frye, and Polly Lovejoy, demand two lots of land in Bridgetown, in this county, numbered seven and eight. The demandants count on the seisin of their late father, Thomas Poor, deceased, within sixty years next before the date of their writ; and allege that he was disseised of the said lands in his lifetime, and died seised of the right thereto, which descended to them. Issue being joined on the right, a trial was had, October term; 1811, in this…
1Opinion of the CourtSewall, J.
Enoch Poor and others, the demandants, in a plea of
land in the nature of a writ of right, declare upon the seisin of their ancestor within sixty years, and aver his death, and a descent of the right to them. The action is for two lots of land in Bridgetown. The tenant tenders an issue upon the right, which is joined.
* At the trial, the tenant relied principally upon a re- [ * 134 ] lease, obtained since the commencement of this action, from two of the demandants, Enoch Poor and Thomas Poor, whereby they, as executors of Thomas Poor, the father, and authorized by his will to sell all his…
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