Chase v. Cochran
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On report. Judgment for plaintiff. Trespass quare clausum brought to recover damages alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff by reason of the building of a bridge across a tide water and navigable aove in the town of Edge-comb, Lincoln County, which cove is dry at low water.
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On report. Judgment for plaintiff. Trespass quare clausum brought to recover damages alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff by reason of the building of a bridge across a tide water and navigable aove in the town of Edge-comb, Lincoln County, which cove is dry at low water. This bridge was constructed by the defendant, George Huff, under a contract made by the selectmen of said Edgecomb in their official capacity and on behalf of said town under one of certain votes of said town passed previous to the making of said contract and the construction of said bridge. This bridge made a…
1Opinion of the CourtPowers, J.
Trespass quare clausum, on report. Writ dated January 2, 1905. Aside from the testimony, which related principally to the questions of estoppel and damages, the facts appear in the following agreed statement:
“ This is an action to recover damages on account of the building of a bridge across a tide water and navigable cove in the town of Edgecornb which cove is dry at low water, and the flats of which, with the adjoining upland on the east side of the cove, and what the plaintiff claims is a mill site and a dam some fifty feet south of the bridge, are owned by and was conveyed to the…
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