Proprietors of the Kennebeck Purchase v. Springer
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This was a writ of entry, and was tried upon the general issue, pleaded and joined, at the last September term in this county, before Thatcher, J. After a verdict for the demandants, a new trial was moved for by the tenant, for reasons which would appear in the judge’s report of the evidence.
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This was a writ of entry, and was tried upon the general issue, pleaded and joined, at the last September term in this county, before Thatcher, J. After a verdict for the demandants, a new trial was moved for by the tenant, for reasons which would appear in the judge’s report of the evidence. From that report, it appears that the action was brought to recover possession of the northerly half of lot numbered thirty-two, in the township of Augusta, on the second mile or range of lots on the west side of Kennebeck River. The demandants proved title and possession of the demanded premises, in the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was afterwards delivered by
Parsons, C. J.
The demandants sued the tenant in a writ of entry, counting on their own seisin within thirty years, and demand*366ing the northerly half of lot numbered thirty-two in the second range of lots, of which they had been disseised by the tenant. On the trial, upon the general issue, the jury found a verdict for the demandants; and the tenant moves for a new trial, because, as he supposes, the verdict was against evidence, which is reported by the judge.
The tenant’s title was under a release from James Springer, who, as the tenant…
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