Legal Opinion
Stevens v. Anderson
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided October 31, 1978PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GODFREY, Justice.
The Andersons, appellants here, and the appellee, Alice Stevens, are successors in title to two adjoining parcels of rural land that once formed a single forty-acre lot owned by one Stuart. In 1915, when Stuart conveyed the westerly parcel to the predecessor of the Andersons, he provided in the conveyance for the following reservation:
“Reserving to myself my heirs and assigns the right to pass and repass over and across the above described lot of land for cattle teams and foot passengers from the highway on the westerly side of said lot to said pasture of said grantor by the…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Bragdon v. KelloggSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1919
- Deacy v. BerberianMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1962
- Matteodo v. CapaldiSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1927
- Copp v. FosterMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1963
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