Thomas v. Hatch
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Maine
Writ of right on the seisin of the demand-ants. Plea, the general issue, and joinder on the mise. At the trial, at May term, 1S37, it appeared that the demandants [James Thomas and another] claimed title to the premises, under a deed from Jamea Dunning to them, dated June 1, 1800; and also a deed from Isaac Hatch and others to them, dated April 2, 1803. James Dunning, by his deed, in consideration of 2300 dollars, conveyed to the demandants a certain lot or tract of land,…
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Writ of right on the seisin of the demand-ants. Plea, the general issue, and joinder on the mise. At the trial, at May term, 1S37, it appeared that the demandants [James Thomas and another] claimed title to the premises, under a deed from Jamea Dunning to them, dated June 1, 1800; and also a deed from Isaac Hatch and others to them, dated April 2, 1803. James Dunning, by his deed, in consideration of 2300 dollars, conveyed to the demandants a certain lot or tract of land, situate in Bangor, and bounded as follows: “Beginning on the bank of Pe-nobscot river; thence running northwesterly by the…
1Opinion of the Court
STORY, Circuit Justice,
in summing up to the jury, went into a full examination of all the evidence, and of the points made by the parties. But such portions only of the summing up are thought necessary to be stated, which more immediately respect the points of law raised at the trial. After having given a general outline of the case, and stating that the district judge concurred in the views which he was about to expound, the judge proceeded as follows:
In the first place, it is proper to consider what is the true construction of the deed from Dunning to the demandants, of the 1st of June.…
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