Bonney v. Greenwood
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On report. Case, for destroying easements claimed by plaintiffs in a building and party-wall and for obstructing a passage-way.
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On report. Case, for destroying easements claimed by plaintiffs in a building and party-wall and for obstructing a passage-way. The first count in the declaration was as follows:— In a plea of the case, for that the plaintiffs, on the tenth day of April, A. D. 1899, and long before had, and continually afterwards hitherto hath been, and now are seized of a certain store and lot situated in Farmington Center village in said Farmington aforesaid, and bounded and described as follows, to wit: “Beginning on the south side of Broadway at the north-west corner of what was formerly Joel Phinney’s…
1Opinion of the CourtWhitehouse, J.
This is an action- on the case to recover damages for the destruction of an easement, claimed by the plaintiffs in a stairway and hallway of the defendant’s building; and also for the *339obstruction of a passage-way five feet in width on the laud of the defendant.
In 1884-, P. C. Perkins was the owner of two adjoining lots of land situated on the southerly side of Broadway in the village of Farmington. The easterly lot, now owned by the plaintiffs, is 22-|-feet in width on the street,, and the westerly lot, now owned by the defendant, is 40 feet in width. There were buildings standing on the…
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