Lockwood Co. v. Lawrence
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Bill in equity. Heard on bill, answers and proof. Washington B. Bragg, one of the respondents filed no answer and entered no appearance, but there was no motion to take the bill jiro confesso as to him. The defendants, Lawrence, Phillips and Company, Fairfield Furniture Company, J. A. Gilley and Company, The Maine Manufacturing Company, E. Totman and Company, N. Totman and Sons, Stephen A. Nye, and A. H. and C. E. Duren, joined in one answer.
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Bill in equity. Heard on bill, answers and proof. Washington B. Bragg, one of the respondents filed no answer and entered no appearance, but there was no motion to take the bill jiro confesso as to him. The defendants, Lawrence, Phillips and Company, Fairfield Furniture Company, J. A. Gilley and Company, The Maine Manufacturing Company, E. Totman and Company, N. Totman and Sons, Stephen A. Nye, and A. H. and C. E. Duren, joined in one answer. Weston and Brainard filed a separate answer. The material facts are stated in the opinion. cited: Woodruff v. Wo. Bloomfield, So. Co. 8 Sawyer C. C.…
1Opinion of the CourtFoster, J.
The bill alleges in substance that the complainants are the owners and in possession of a large amount of real and personal estate, consisting of lands, dams and water power, including mills and machinery employed in manufacturing cotton into fabrics, situated at Waterville, on both banks of the Kennebec river, not navigable for vessels or boats at that place, their dams extending across said river; that in 1874, they built a manufactory of thirty-four thousand spindles, and in 1882, another of fifty-five thousand spindles, both of which have been in use since their erection, and that in said…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Boyce's Executors v. GrundySupreme Court of the United States · 1830
- Campbell v. . SeamanNew York Court of Appeals · 1876
- Parker v. Winnipiseogee Lake Cotton & Woollen Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1863
- Parker & Edgarton v. FooteNew York Supreme Court · 1838
- Brinkerhoff v. BrownNew York Court of Chancery · 1822
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- Cloyes v. Middlebury Electric Co.Supreme Court of Vermont · 1907
- West Muncie Strawboard Co. v. SlackIndiana Supreme Court · 1904
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