Carter v. Treadwell
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of New Hampshire
This was a bill in equity in the following terms: “Ezra Carter, Junior, of Portland; in the county of Cumberland, state of Maine, and a citizen of the state of Maine, for himself and also in his capacity of administrator of the goods, chattels, and estate of Seth R. Adams, late of Portland, aforesaid, and at the time of his decease a citizen of said state of Maine — to which capacity of administrator, your orator was duly appointed on the twenty-first day of November, A. D.…
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This was a bill in equity in the following terms: “Ezra Carter, Junior, of Portland; in the county of Cumberland, state of Maine, and a citizen of the state of Maine, for himself and also in his capacity of administrator of the goods, chattels, and estate of Seth R. Adams, late of Portland, aforesaid, and at the time of his decease a citizen of said state of Maine — to which capacity of administrator, your orator was duly appointed on the twenty-first day of November, A. D. 1S37, and thereafterwards was duly qualified to act accordingly, brings this his bill against Daniel H. Treadwell of…
1Opinion of the Court
STORY. Circuit .Tustice.
The case presented by this voluminous bill may be thus briefly stated. Carter purchased of the defendants and one Henry L. Wiggin seventeen thirty-second parts of a certain township of land, in Maine, viz. seven thirty-second parts of Treadwell, three thirty-second parts of Haven, and seven thirty-second parts of Wiggin; and the vendors covenanted to procure a conveyance of the remaining fifteen thirty-second parts from the other owners to Carter, and who was to pay therefor at the rate of one dollar per thousand feet for all the good merchantable pine timber on the…
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