Parlin v. Ware
Parlin v. Ware
Opinion of the Court
— The case is presented upon so much of the testimony, as may be legally admissible, with authority to make such inferences as a jury might.
The demandants’ title arises out of the levy of an execu
The tenant introduced a deed of conveyance of lot numbered 24, in Cornville, from Phiueas Currier to Nathaniel Flanders, dated September 16, 1825. And a deed from the latter to himself of lot 24, in Cornville, being the farm whereon he then lived, made on November 22, 1836, and recorded on the day following. And a deed of release from John Flanders to himself, made on November 22, 1836, of lot 24, in Cornville, with other documents not deemed essential.
Objection is made to the title of the tenant, as derived from Nathaniel and John Flanders, “ that there is not sufficient evidence in the case showing, or tending to show, that cither of the deeds covers the land, or any part of the land, claimed in the case at bar.”
The description of a tract of land in the levy, under which the demandants claim title, is of a piece of land lying in
The land conveyed by Nathaniel Flanders to the tenant, is described as “ a tract or parcel of land situated in Oorn-ville aforesaid, being lot numbered twenty-four on the plan of Oornville.” There is not, as the argument states, any reference in the levy to the plan of Oornville for the number of the lot. In the absence of all opposing testimony it is not a strained inference to make, that lot 24, in Oorn-ville, and lot 24, on the plan of Oornville, is the same. The lot is however further identified by the lease introduced by the demandants and by testimony, as the - lot on which the two Flanders lived.
It is further insisted, that the testimony does not prove, that Nathaniel Flanders owned the land, when he made a conveyance of it to the tenant, because the conveyance from Currier to him describes Nathaniel Flanders “ of South Hampton, of the county of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire,” and there is no testimony to prove that he removed to or lived upon lot 24, in Oornville. The proof authorizing an inference of identity is, that the lot conveyed to him and by him is the same; that he received a lease of it for life, desci'ibing it as the farm whereon he then lived. There is no proof of any other Nathaniel Flanders connected with those deeds.
The result is, that Nathaniel Flanders appears to have been the owner of the farm by a conveyance from Currier; to have made a deed of it to Ms son John, and then to have conveyed it to the tenant. There is no sufficient proof, that a legal title to the farm was conveyed by the deed from Nathaniel to John, and it was therefore apparently conveyed by Nathaniel to the tenant. Demandants nonsuit.
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- Parlin & als. versus Ware
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