Pulitzer v. Livingston
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Agreed Statement, This was an action of covenant broken, submitted to the law court on an agreed statement of facts which are found in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtFoster, J.
More than forty years ago certain persons residing in England and France were the owners in fee of large tracts of real estate in America, particularly in the states of Maine, New York, Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia. These estates had formerly been the property of their ancestors, William Bingham,'of Philadelphia, and from whom the title descended, the “Bingham Estate,” so-called, embracing two million two hundred thousand acres in the state of Maine alone. These large landed estates were principally wild and unimproved, and required the management in this country of…
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