Case Name: Holebrook v. Lucas
Court: Connecticut Superior Court
Jurisdiction: Connecticut
Decision Date: 1790-07
Citations: 1 Root 199
Docket Number: 
Parties: Holebrook v. Lucas.
Judges: 
Reporter: Connecticut Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 199–199

Head Matter:
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?

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