Donworth v. Sawyer
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On Report. Trover for the conversion of logs cut, removed and sold by the defendant from Township 13, Range 7, westerly of the east line of the State, in the season of 1897 and 1898. The plaintiffs were then the owners of said township and of all rights appertaining thereto, except 1000 acres, public lots, already set out and except to the extent of the grant contained in a deed from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to Jewett and March, dated December 3d, 1850. The…
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On Report. Trover for the conversion of logs cut, removed and sold by the defendant from Township 13, Range 7, westerly of the east line of the State, in the season of 1897 and 1898. The plaintiffs were then the owners of said township and of all rights appertaining thereto, except 1000 acres, public lots, already set out and except to the extent of the grant contained in a deed from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to Jewett and March, dated December 3d, 1850. The defendant claimed no rights except under this deed and by mesne conveyances the defendant had all the rights of the grantees…
1Opinion of the CourtHaskell, J.
Trover for the conversion of certain pine, spruce and cedar logs.
The defense is:
I. That the logs were cut from common lands of the plaintiffs and defendant.
Massachusetts, in 1850, being the owner of Township 13, Range 7, westerly from the east line of the State, containing 22,040 acres, *250exclusive of public lots, conveyed to defendant’s predecessors ‘in title, “2000 acres of land to be selected in the East half the township .... in one or two lots; and 2000 acres from the West half of said township in lots not exceeding six in number, and all of said lots are to be laid out at right angles…
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