Millett v. Mullen
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On report. Real action against Charles W. Mullen, James Rice, Millard E. Mudgett, Clarence S. Lunt and Joseph P. Bass to recover lots 4 and 16 of wild land, each containing two hundred acres, in Township No. 3, Indian Purchase, Penobscot County. The case appears in the opinion. Defendants’ claim that title is in the State: 1. It must be proven that the land to be forfeited was “not taxable by the assessors of any town or organized plantation.”
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On report. Real action against Charles W. Mullen, James Rice, Millard E. Mudgett, Clarence S. Lunt and Joseph P. Bass to recover lots 4 and 16 of wild land, each containing two hundred acres, in Township No. 3, Indian Purchase, Penobscot County. The case appears in the opinion. Defendants’ claim that title is in the State: 1. It must be proven that the land to be forfeited was “not taxable by the assessors of any town or organized plantation.” R. S., 1840, c. 14, §§ 1-10. 2. The statute requires a legal assessment. Tax 1844 was assessed upon the valuation of that year. While the tax act…
1Opinion of the CourtEmery, J.
The demanded land is two specific parcels of two hundred acres, each outside of any organized municipality of any kind, but within a definite, surveyed and recognized sub-division of the territory of the state officially designated as “Township No. Three, Indian ■ Purchase, Penobscot county.” The action was begun December 21, 1897. The defendant deraigns title solely from a deed from the State land agent to William H. McCrillis, dated April 80, 1849, and' purporting to effectuate a sale made according to the statute 1848, ch. 65, of land in that township forfeited to the State for the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- United States v. WigglesworthU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts · 1842
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