Holden v. Page
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Action of trespass quare clausum. Defendant filed plea of general issue; also brief statement setting forth an alleged ownership in the parcels of land described in plaintiff’s writ. Verdict for plaintiff in the sum of $211.00. Defendant filed motion for new trial; also exceptions. Motion and exceptions overruled. Case stated in opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtDeasy, J.
Trespass to try title to land in Dennistown Plantation, County of Somerset. The property involved is an approximately rectangular lot containing, including several acres of water, nearly one hundred acres, with a farm house and farm braidings thereon.
*244The defendant has the record title to the locus, derived under deeds dated 1882 from Abner and Philander Coburn, who are conceded to have been the owners of the property.
The plaintiff claims title by adverse possession. The case shows that the plaintiff’s father, Samuel Holden, settled upon the lot in 1858, erected farm buildings and lived upon…
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