Rotch v. Livingston
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On Report. These were bills in equity, heard on bills, answers and testimony. The purpose of the bills, both being alike, was to restrain the defendants from excavating, grading and draining and also building a sidewalk upon a strip of land ten feet wide in front of the plaintiffs’ premises and being a part of a private way fifty feet in width as originally laid out by the former owners, and known as the “Livingston Road” at Bar Harbor.
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On Report. These were bills in equity, heard on bills, answers and testimony. The purpose of the bills, both being alike, was to restrain the defendants from excavating, grading and draining and also building a sidewalk upon a strip of land ten feet wide in front of the plaintiffs’ premises and being a part of a private way fifty feet in width as originally laid out by the former owners, and known as the “Livingston Road” at Bar Harbor. This ten-foot strip of the plaintiffs’ land lies within the fifty-foot locus and between the thirty-foot finished road and the plaintiffs’ southern line. The…
1Opinion of the CourtEmery, J.
These are two similar suits in equity reported to the law court for determination upon the bills, answers and evidence. Some technical objections were at first taken upon either side, but they have all practically been waived in the desire of the parties for the opinion of the court upon the merits, to the consideration of which we at once proceed.
*464The scene is Bar Harbor, an extensive summer resort containing many beautiful and costly summer residences. The parties are the several owners of a group of such residences, or residence lots, served by a private road now called the “Livingston…
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