Wells v. Jackson Iron Manufacturing Co.
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
1. This is the same action in which an opinion was delivered by Bartlett, J-) at the August adjourned law term, 1866. At this trial the jury disagreed, but it seemed advisable that the legal questions raised should be considered at the law term before the case went to another jury trial.
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1. This is the same action in which an opinion was delivered by Bartlett, J-) at the August adjourned law term, 1866. At this trial the jury disagreed, but it seemed advisable that the legal questions raised should be considered at the law term before the case went to another jury trial. "Writ of entry dated July 10, 1860, for a tract of land, “ being part of a tract of land known as Thompson & Meserve’s Purchase, in the county of Coos, but not within the limits of any town, and bounded as follows: Beginning at the north-west corner of Pinkham’s Grant, so called, in said county; thence N. 8…
1Opinion of the Court
‘Sargent, J. *
1. The plaintiff claims the summit of Mount Washing-on .in this suit as being within tire limits of Thompson. & Meserve’s Purchase, which was granted by Willey, the State Commissioner, September 10, 1835; while the defendants claim the same summit, as being a part of Sargent’s Purchase, which was granted by the same Willey, May 31, 1832.
As the defendants’ grant was earlier in date, if the the two grants *523should be found to overlap and cover the same ground in part, or, in other words, if each grant in terms should be found to cover the summit of Mount Washington, then the prior…
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