Whitmore v. Learned
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On report. Forcible entry and detainer transferred from the municipal court for the town of Brunswick. Date of writ July 30, 1877. Plea, the general issue with brief statement of title in one Sarah E. Holbrook under whom the defendant claims the premises as tenant. The case and facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion.
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On report. Forcible entry and detainer transferred from the municipal court for the town of Brunswick. Date of writ July 30, 1877. Plea, the general issue with brief statement of title in one Sarah E. Holbrook under whom the defendant claims the premises as tenant. The case and facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion. The law court to render such judgment, as the law and evidence require. in an elaborate brief, among very numerous authorities, cited Smith v. Bodfish, 27 Maine, 289. Clark v. Pratt, 47 Maine, 55. Hubbard v. Little, 9 Cush. 475. Eaton v. Jacobs, 52 Maine, 452. 2 Greonl. Ev.…
1Opinion of the CourtSymonds, J.
This is a process of forcible entry and detainer, originally brought in the municipal court at Brunswick, where the general issue was pleaded, with brief statement of title in one Sarah E. Holbrook, under whom the defendant claims. No allegation that the brief statement was frivolous and intended for delay appears to have been made, and the ease was thereupon regularly transferred and entered at the next term of the supreme judicial court in Cumberland county, where the evidence was *278taken and reported to the law court. TJpon the legal testimony-contained in the report, judgment is to be…
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