Bodwell Water Power Co. v. Old Town Electric Co.
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Oil report. .Forcible entry and detainer brought to recover possession of a mill-site adjacent to the dam of the plaintiff company on the Penobscot river at Milford. The case came to this court below on appeal from the Old Town Municipal Court.
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Oil report. .Forcible entry and detainer brought to recover possession of a mill-site adjacent to the dam of the plaintiff company on the Penobscot river at Milford. The case came to this court below on appeal from the Old Town Municipal Court. Defendant company had erected its own building on the demised premises and placed therein its own machinery of the usual kind for generating electricity, which it was engaged in supplying for lighting and power purposes in Old Town, Milford and vicinity. By a clause in the lease the plaintiff company was given the option at the end of the term to bxxy…
1Opinion of the CourtWiswell, C. J.
Action of forcible entry and detainer.
By a written lease dated Dec. 1, 18(89, the plaintiff leased to the defendant the premises, possession of which is sought to be recovered in this action, for a term of ten years from that date. During the continuation of the term of the original lease, the parties by an indenture extended the term for one year from Dec1. 1, 1899, subject to all the terms, provisions, restrictions and agreements of the original lease. The extended term, therefore expired on Dec. 1, 1900.
On Dec. 7, 1900, within seven days from the expiration of the term, this process was…
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