Woodman v. Freeman
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
The facts in this case, so far as they are pertinent to the question on which the decision is founded, sufficiently appear in the opinion of the Court. It was agreed by the parties that the case should be argued in writing.
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The facts in this case, so far as they are pertinent to the question on which the decision is founded, sufficiently appear in the opinion of the Court. It was agreed by the parties that the case should be argued in writing. As the arguments approach to nearly eight hundred pages, the space required for them is, obviously, too great for their admission into a volume of Reports. were said at the close of the opening argument for the plaintiff to have been counsel for him; but both the opening argument and the reply appear to have been made by the plaintiff himself, who is a counselor at law. •…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court, Whitman- C. J. not sitting in'the case, and taking no part in the decision, was drawn up and delivered at the April Term, 1847, by
Siieplev J.
This suit in equity is presented upon bill, answers, and proof. The plaintiff seeks relief from the effects of an executed contract; made during the year 1835, for the purchase and sale of an undivided portion of a tract of land situated in the town of Carroll in the State of New Hampshire. The printed record of the case is voluminous, containing three hundred and twenty octavo pages. The case has boon argued very elaborately…
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