Phillips v. Laughlin
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Motion and exceptions by defendant. Peal action, to recover lot numbered sixty-nine on the corner of York and Pine Streets, Bangor, Penobscot County. Plea, the general issue. Tlie plaintiffs claimed title as heirs of their father, John Phillips, who lived in California from about the year 1867 up to the time of his death which occurred some time in the year 1893, the exact time of his death not appearing in evidence.
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Motion and exceptions by defendant. Peal action, to recover lot numbered sixty-nine on the corner of York and Pine Streets, Bangor, Penobscot County. Plea, the general issue. Tlie plaintiffs claimed title as heirs of their father, John Phillips, who lived in California from about the year 1867 up to the time of his death which occurred some time in the year 1893, the exact time of his death not appearing in evidence. The defendant claimed title under a foreclosed mortgage, executed by Catherine Phillips March 13, 1894, and then duly recorded. She died February 22, 1901, in Bangor, Maine,…
1Opinion of the CourtWiswell, C. J.
Real action in which the demandants are the heirs at law of John Phillips who, admittedly, was at one time seized in fee of the demanded premises. The defendant claims under a deed from John Phillips to Catherine Phillips, he having acquired title to the premises from Catherine, if the deed to her was a valid one and conveyed the title. This was the sole question at issue at the trial, viz, whether or not the deed which purports to have been signed by John Phillips on October 3, 1885, acknowledged by him on the same day before a notary public in the state of California, where the alleged…
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