Hunt v. Card
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On Repobt. Action of debt upon a bond executed by tbe defendants and delivered to the plaintiff, to secure the payment of damages for his land taken by the Wiscasset & Quebec Railroad for the extension of said road from Burnham to Pittsfield.
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On Repobt. Action of debt upon a bond executed by tbe defendants and delivered to the plaintiff, to secure the payment of damages for his land taken by the Wiscasset & Quebec Railroad for the extension of said road from Burnham to Pittsfield. The plea was the general issue, and a brief statement in which the defendants claim that “none of the conditions precedent in said supposed writing obligatory have ever been done or performed by the obligee therein or anyone in his behalf, and the defendants have fully performed all of the conditions of said supposed writing obligatory.” The action was…
1Opinion of the CourtEmery, J.
This is an action of debt upon a bond, the execution and delivery of which áre not denied. The condition of the •bond is as follows: “Whereas the United States Construction Company is about to construct a narrow gauge railroad, leading from Burnham to Pittsfield, and crossing the land of Will Hunt, as indicated by the location of said railroad, filed with the register of deeds, in the counties of Waldo and Somerset. Now if the said United States Construction Company shall well and truly pay to the said Will Hunt any and all land damages and costs of court adjudged by the county commissioners,…
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