Proprietors of Kennebec Purchase v. Laboree
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
j| his was a writ of entry, in which were demanded 200 acres of land in Whiiejield, on_ the east side of Sheepscut river, 100 rods wide, and extending back from the river one mile; the demandants counting on their own seisin within 30 years and a disseisin by the tenants. As to a part of the premises adjoining the river, being about twenty-five acres of the front of the lot, the tenants pleaded a disclaimer, which was admitted.
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j| his was a writ of entry, in which were demanded 200 acres of land in Whiiejield, on_ the east side of Sheepscut river, 100 rods wide, and extending back from the river one mile; the demandants counting on their own seisin within 30 years and a disseisin by the tenants. As to a part of the premises adjoining the river, being about twenty-five acres of the front of the lot, the tenants pleaded a disclaimer, which was admitted. The title to the residue was tried upon the issue of nul disseisin. The demandants gave in evidence the patent from the gov* ernor and council of Plymouth to Antipas…
1Opinion of the Court
Mellen C. J.
The general title of the demandants to what Is commonly called the Plymouth claim or patent, is not disputed. But it was urged by the counsel for the tenant, that the land demanded in this action, though within fifteen miles of Kennebec river, is not within the true bounds of the claim. The deposition of Ballard has been relied on to shew what are the utmost limits of Cobbessecontee; and of course what is the true southerly line of the patent. If the line run by him be the true line, it is admitted that the land in dispute lies north of it. The release from the Commonwealth of…
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