Pike v. Munroe
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On Facts agreed and on documents and testimony referred to. Writ of Entry to recover possession of a piece of land on the river St. Croix, in Calais, where the tide flows and ebbs. The demanded premises are part of a strip of flats or shore, twenty-five rods wide, and lying between high water mark and low water mark. In 1792, John Bohannan purchased one hundred acres of land in the then plantation No. 5, now the city of Calais.
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On Facts agreed and on documents and testimony referred to. Writ of Entry to recover possession of a piece of land on the river St. Croix, in Calais, where the tide flows and ebbs. The demanded premises are part of a strip of flats or shore, twenty-five rods wide, and lying between high water mark and low water mark. In 1792, John Bohannan purchased one hundred acres of land in the then plantation No. 5, now the city of Calais. It was bounded as follows : — “ Beginning the south side of a large white rock on the bank: ” “ and from thence running down river 50 rods to a stake and stones; [the…
1Opinion of the Court
Rice, J. —
Both parties trace their title to the same source, claiming through mesne conveyances from John Bohannan, who was the grantee of the original proprietors of the town of Calais. November 10, 1796, Bohannan conveyed to Edward H. Robbins, one hundred acres of land situate in the present city of Calais, then plantation No. 5, in Washington County, by the same description contained in his deed from the proprietors, to wit- “Beginning at the south side of a large white rock on the bank, in a south-west direction from the space between two uncovered rocks at the first small point above…
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