Odlin v. Gove
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
This is a writ of entry brought by Joseph E. Ocllin against Richard Gove, and the question is one of boundaries between adjoining owners. The land is in the village of Laconia, and each party has a brick building on his land, with but a narrow space between them. The tract demanded is a triangular piece, fifteen inches in front upon the street, and extending back seventy-two feet to a point.
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This is a writ of entry brought by Joseph E. Ocllin against Richard Gove, and the question is one of boundaries between adjoining owners. The land is in the village of Laconia, and each party has a brick building on his land, with but a narrow space between them. The tract demanded is a triangular piece, fifteen inches in front upon the street, and extending back seventy-two feet to a point. The defendant, as to so much of the land demanded as is located under the north wall of his building, being fourteen inches in front and extending back twenty-seven feet, pleads nul disseizin, and…
1Opinion of the CourtBellows, J.
Tbe .testimony of tbe plaintiff, whether an agreement was made between him and Stephen Gale, was not properly a matter of opinion, but of fact, to which he might testify. The opinion of the witness, as to the effect of what was said and done, would be open to the objection taken by the defendant’s counsel; but whether an agreement was made, whether there was the consent of the two minds, is quite a different thing. Had he stated, in the first instance, that the parties made a line, set up boundaries, and agreed to it, there could have been no valid objection to it. In Eaton v. Rice, 8 N. H.…
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