Connecticut Superior Court, 1807

Rathbone v. Riley

Rathbone v. Riley
Connecticut Superior Court · Decided February 15, 1807 · Swift
3 Day 503

Counsel

Dwight and Z. H. Smith, for the plaintiffs,, Goodrich and J. Williams, for the defendant.

Rathbone v. Riley

Opinion of the Court

Swift, Pr. J.

in summing up to the jury, said, that if they found the deed from Brooks to Tryon to be fraudulent, the copy of the attachment left in the town clerk’s office, and the record of the execution, was constructive notice in law to the defendant, and to all the world, that the plaintiffs claimed tlic demanded premises ; and that the levy of the execution by the plaintiffs vested in them a legal title thereto.

The jury found a verdict for the plaintiffs, widen wsc accepted.

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