Case ID: root_1/html/0199-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Holebrook v. Lucas.
    A deed given by .a grantor, wlio is disseized and out of possession except to the possessor, is void.
    Action of ejectment for a tract of land. Plea not guilty. Issue to the court.
    The land belonged to Lucas’s wife in, fee; she died without ever having had a child; Lucas continued in the possession claiming it to be his; her brother takes administration and has the land distributed to him as her heir-at-law, and sells it to the plaintiff; Lucas being in possession claiming it at the same time. !
    The question was — Whether the brother’s deed was void by the statute, he being disseized at the time of executing it, to the plaintiff?
   By the Court.

Judgment — That the defendant is not guilty, on the ground that the deed is void by the statute.