Moulton v. Libbey
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On Report from Nisi Prius, Wells, J., presiding. Debt, to recover the penalty prescribed in § 4, of R. S., c. 61. “ If any person shall take or otherwise wilfully destroy any oysters or other shell-fish, or obstruct their growth in their beds, in any of the waters of this State, except as provided in the two following sections, he shall forfeit to the person suing therefor, not less than one dollar, nor more than two dollars, for each bushel thereof including the shellfish…
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On Report from Nisi Prius, Wells, J., presiding. Debt, to recover the penalty prescribed in § 4, of R. S., c. 61. “ If any person shall take or otherwise wilfully destroy any oysters or other shell-fish, or obstruct their growth in their beds, in any of the waters of this State, except as provided in the two following sections, he shall forfeit to the person suing therefor, not less than one dollar, nor more than two dollars, for each bushel thereof including the shellfish so taken or destroyed.” Section 5, enacts that “the selectmen of the town, or assessors of the plantation, wherein such…
1Opinion of the CourtShepley, C. J.
— The plaintiff’s right to recover is, by the report, made to depend upon the sufficiency of the defence to prevent it. If the Court is “-of opinion, that the facts set up in defence would not constitute a defence, then the defendant is to be defaulted.”
The facts presented in defence are, an attested copy of a “ charter of the Province of Mayne,” from Charles, king of England to Sir Eerdinando Georges, bearing date on the third day of April, in the fifteenth year of his reign. And an attested copy of a conveyance from Georges to Thomas Cammack of fifteen hundred acres of land described made…
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