Town of Sedgwick v. Butler

[¶ 1] Russell Butler appeals from a judgment entered in the Superior Court (Hancock County, Marsano, J.) declaring that the Town of Sedgwick is the owner in fee simple of a parcel known as the Town landing. Butler contends that the Town did not acquire the parcel in fee simple and has abandoned all rights it may have had in the land pursuant to 23 M.R.S.A. § 3028 (1992) and the common law doctrine of abandonment. We affirm the judgment.

[¶ 2] In 1790, in accordance with a resolve of the General Court of Massachusetts, 1786 Mass. Laws & Resolves ch. 130, the Proprietors of Sedgwick laid out a…