Oatman v. Fowler
Supreme Court of Vermont
Trespass guare clausum for entering on lands in Sunderland and cutting timber. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the June term, 1870, Wheeler, J., presiding.
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Trespass guare clausum for entering on lands in Sunderland and cutting timber. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the June term, 1870, Wheeler, J., presiding. On the trial it appeared that Sunderland was granted July 30, 1761, by Benning Wentworth, then Governor of the Province of New Hampshire, to sixty-eight proprietors, and that the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts was one of the proprietors, and John Searls and John Quackenbush two others. That upwards of nine thousand acres of land in Sunderland is yet undivided and common. That on the 26th day of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Bedfield, J.
This is an action of trespass, quare clausum fregit, for entering and cutting timber on lands in Sunderland.
To sustain the action, the plaintiffs must show legal title, or actual possession of the locus in quo.
In proof of title the plaintiffs show that “ The Society for the Propagation of'lhe Gospel in Foreign Parts ” was one of the 68 original proprietors of the town of Sunderland ; that on the 26th of September, 1831, said society, under its corporate seal, executed a power of attorney to Bishop Griswold and others, authorizing them to…
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