Commonwealth v. Pejepscut Proprietors
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This was an information filed by the attorney-general, May term, 1808, for an intrusion by the defendants into certain lands of the ci mm on wealth.
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This was an information filed by the attorney-general, May term, 1808, for an intrusion by the defendants into certain lands of the ci mm on wealth. The information is alleged to be brought in pursuance of a resolve of the legislature, passed February 24th, 1807, directing the attorney-general or solicitor-general to institute an inquest of office, or any other process in law, against the defendants, to ascertain the title in tns commonwealth to revest the possession of the land on both sides of the Androscoggin river, above and northerly of a south-west line drawn on the westerly side of…
1Opinion of the CourtSedgwick, J.
This is a prosecution for an intrusion into the lands of the commonwealth, instituted by an information of the attorney-general, by the special order of the legislature.
The defence set up by the plea of the defendants is, in substance, that there being a former prosecution of the same kind against Josiah Little, they became, by consent, parties to it; that afterwards, during the pendency of that prosecution, a resolution passed all branches of the legislature, authorizing the attorney-general, under a rule of this Court, in which the action was then pending, to submit all the controversies…
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