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Lord v. Wentworth

Supreme Court of New Hampshire Carroll
Dec 1, 1895
36 A. 17 (N.H. 1895)

Opinion

Decided December, 1895.

Josiah H. Hobbs, for the plaintiff.

John B. Nash, for the defendant.


TRESPASS, quare clausum. March 11, 1875, Nathaniel Willey owned a large rectangular lot of land bounded westerly by the "old road" and southerly by the "new road." In the corner formed by the junction of the two roads was a nearly square tract of about four acres called the Webster homestead, bounded westerly twenty-five rods on the "old road" and southerly twenty-six rods on the "new road." On that day he conveyed to Mary Webster a tract of land bounded and described as follows: "Commencing at the junction of the two roads, thence running northerly on the old road about eighteen rods to a large stone opposite to my barn; thence easterly, parallel with the fence between my pasture and the Webster homestead, to a point far enough east to contain eight acres between said fence and the new road; thence southerly to the new road; and thence westerly on the new road to the bound begun at; meaning to convey the former homestead of the late Horace Webster." The plaintiff excepted to the ruling that the deed conveyed to Mary the eight-acre tract and not merely the Webster homestead, and the exception was overruled.

CHASE, J., did not sit.


Summaries of

Lord v. Wentworth

Supreme Court of New Hampshire Carroll
Dec 1, 1895
36 A. 17 (N.H. 1895)
Case details for

Lord v. Wentworth

Case Details

Full title:LORD v. WENTWORTH

Court:Supreme Court of New Hampshire Carroll

Date published: Dec 1, 1895

Citations

36 A. 17 (N.H. 1895)
36 A. 17