STANLEY v. COLT


72 U.S. 119 (____)

5 Wall. 119

STANLEY v. COLT.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. W.M. Evarts and C.E. Perkins, for the heirs at law:

Messrs. B.R. Curtis and W.W. McFarlane, contra, for the purchaser:


Mr. Justice NELSON delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an action of ejectment by the heirs of William Stanley to recover for breach of condition a tract of land, situate in the city of Hartford, devised by the ancestor to an ecclesiastical society and their successors, on the 7th October, 1786; and one of the principal questions in the case is whether or not the devise was upon a condition, which, when broken, would...

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