The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1875-12-01
The Uncertainty Of Old Land
Titles.

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from tho american Land Reries
the history Of case illustrating
this subject, which we condense u,
follows: About sixteen years ago, ,
Mr. Ingalls, owned real estate il
that portion of Boston which was
subsequently burned by tho great
fire Of comparatively 1eccnt occur
renee. His father had left it to him
by will, first giving his mother life
interest in, which torminnted Oh
lS45. BY his will the father ais,
gave his two ncphews, named Jon es
legacies of $4,000 each, but before
his death lost all his property OK
copt this real estate, and the legacies
were never paid. There being no
limitation i'll Massachusetts to the
time i'll which suit may be brought
for the recovery of a legacy, the
Joneses sued in 1860 FOR theirs, and
recovered principal and interest,
thcH amounting to $143,0OO. The
repl estate was sold under, this iudg-
mont (the claim of Ingalls,, the heir
at law, being decided by the court
to be inferior to that of the lcgatees, J
brought $4,000 less than enough to
satisfy it, and was purchased by the
Jonescs az an Investment of their
legacy. Thoy were just fairly in
possession when John Rodgers
brought suit for tho property on
the ground that the person who
owned it in 1850 wilied it to his
brother, "if he sllall die without
ISSUE That the brother lr,d Il
daughter, and she daughter,
through whom the property passed
ultimately by sale to Ingalls,, and
that tho phrase quoted necessitated
4 construction of the will of 1850,
which would give the property to the
tostator's heir at law, Peter Rogers,
tho father of John, the present
litigant. The courts sustained
Rogers claim, and he oustcd the
Jonoscs. Then Il young lawyer
looked further back into tho chain
Of title, anil found tn the proper
ty WAS sold in ITO, but the deed
did not contain the usual ''und to
his hers,' and consequently the
should have reverted at
tho purchasers death to the seller
and his heirs. Ih;se heirs were
hunted up, thcir title bought by
real estate operation, and tho l,ropor-
ty recovered by him, ana after the
grclt iite swept over it he bought
an adjoining lot and erected upon
the property thus enlarged, large
stores. But III the meantime ingalls,
who was oi.stei by the Joncses, set
himself to digging in n mine which
had proved SO fruitful, and tracing
Che chain IL little further back, he
foauL that the property had been
Owned in 1860 by his lineal ancestor
(whoso heir at law he now was,)
and willcl on condition that it
should never be built upon, and tLat
tho building of the now store
vitiated the will and made him the
legal owner again of the property,
and a fan richer man than he was
when ousted by the Jonescs. This
case teaches two truths that truth
is often more improbable than tiction
and that one CAN not be too careful
in verifying the validity of every link
III tho chain Of their title to real
estate. South Carolina and most
OF the States, however, have ut some
period enacted statutes to give title
by the individual possession for q
term of years, which would, we
presume, heal such imperfections
nnl uncertainties us must, is would
seom, still exist in Massachusetts
tt itlcs.-Hershdao G0zctte.
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The coloreI ca,let in the Nava
Academy, Horny L. Baker Jr., fl ON
Mississippi, was dismissed from the
academy last week by tho secretary
of tho navy, at the request of the
superintendent. This cadet has oc
c;tsioned considerable trouble since
his entrance, more than year ago,
into the naval school. Numbers of
his classmates and Others Mt the
school Lnye been reported, and seve-
ral even dismissed, for molesting or
troubling him in various ways, but
the hypothesis that he was only an
innocent victim of rnprovoked ag-
gressions is proven. untenablc by tic
concurrent testimony Of his class,
and by the report Of n board of in
qltiry in regard to the latest difficult
ty i'll which his name appears. 1t
WAS clearly shown before tho board
that Baker used, on the occasion re
fcrrel to, language too gross for
publication and totally incxcusable
and this migrant breach of dcconuy,
coupled with the previous accumula,
ton Of minor oflenses which he has
committed, induced tho s,,perinten.
dent to request his dismissal.
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lie GREATEST Crop IN THE World
The hay crop of the United States
for the last year is reported to be
over 27000,000 tons, cured. This
at $50 per ton, is about five hundred
and forty million dollars. Tho value
Of animals slaughtered for food il
that year was $306, 100000. The
butter crop was $514,00O,OOO. This
all came from grass. There wa,
produced 235,000,000 gallons O
milk, worth $25,0O0,OO0. This, too