Rancourt v. Nichols

This case comes to the Court on exceptions by the defendant to a decision in the Superior Court on process of forcible entry and detainer. The writ issued from the Municipal Court for the City of Portland on May 12, 1942, returnable a week later, and was there determined notwithstanding a plea, offered by way of brief statement accompanying the general issue, that title to the premises was “in question” and that a bill in equity was pending in the Supreme Judicial Court to determine the rights of the parties under a contract for the sale thereof from the defendant’s landlord to the plaintiff,…