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3 Day 489

Wells v. Tryon

Connecticut Superior Court

Decided November 15, 1806

Connecticut Superior Court · decided 1806-11-15

THIS was an action of ejectment. The defendants , , , „ . ..... ... pleaded, severally, no wrong or disseisin; and issue was dosed to the jury. to prove their title, offered in evidence a writing, purporting to be a copy of a certificate of survey, signed “ Thomas Wells, Surveyor,” and K Thomas Hollister and Jonathan Hale, Committee.” It was certified to be a true copy of record by “ Josiah Hale, Register objected to the admission of this paper in evidence to the jury.

Decided 1806-11-15

By the Court.

¶1The certificate offered is a proper subject of the proprietors. The town could not make the survey. But it does not appear by whom the survey was made, or recorded; or by a registrar of what body the copy was certified. It is not proper to send a paper to the jury under so much uncertainty. It is, therefore, inadmissible.

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