Randall v. Wentworth
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On report. Real action to recover possession of certain land situated in Montville, Waldo County. Plea, the general issue with a brief statement alleging “that the title to the land described in the plaintiff’s writ and declaration is and was at the date of said plaintiff’s writ in the West Waldo Agricultural Society, a corporation duly established by the laws of Maine, and not in the plaintiff, and that the possession and right of possession was at said time in said West…
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On report. Real action to recover possession of certain land situated in Montville, Waldo County. Plea, the general issue with a brief statement alleging “that the title to the land described in the plaintiff’s writ and declaration is and was at the date of said plaintiff’s writ in the West Waldo Agricultural Society, a corporation duly established by the laws of Maine, and not in the plaintiff, and that the possession and right of possession was at said time in said West Waldo Agricultural Society, and not in the plaintiff, and that whatever said defendant has done in the premises has been…
1Opinion of the CourtWiswell, C. J.
This is a real action. The demanded premises at one time belonged to the demandant. On October 17, 1887, he conveyed the same to the George’s River Trotting Park Association, the name of which Association was subsequently changed to the West Waldo Agricultural Society. The defendant’s plea is the general issue, with a. brief statement in which he justifies his possession as an officer and agent of the West Waldo Agricultural Society. That corporation has title to the demanded premises unless its estate has been forfeited by its failure to comply with the following condition contained in the…
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