French v. Rollins
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Writ of entry, demanding the southwest quarter of lot No. lOg, in Belgrade, The facts, pertinent to the questions decided, appear in the opinion of the Court. A nonsuit was ordered by consent, which was to he set aside, if the demandaqt was entitled to recover, and in their arguments cited Brown v, Wood, 17 Mass. R. 68; Barnard v. Pope, H Mass. R. 434; Shumway v. Holbrook, 1 Pick. J.14 5 Stearns, 33; Co, Lit, 181 (a), 257 (b); Ken. Pur, v8 Springer, 4 Mass.
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Writ of entry, demanding the southwest quarter of lot No. lOg, in Belgrade, The facts, pertinent to the questions decided, appear in the opinion of the Court. A nonsuit was ordered by consent, which was to he set aside, if the demandaqt was entitled to recover, and in their arguments cited Brown v, Wood, 17 Mass. R. 68; Barnard v. Pope, H Mass. R. 434; Shumway v. Holbrook, 1 Pick. J.14 5 Stearns, 33; Co, Lit, 181 (a), 257 (b); Ken. Pur, v8 Springer, 4 Mass. R. 416 ; Boston Mill Cor. v. Bulfinch, 6 Mass. R. 229; Little v. Libbey, 2 Greenl. 242; 1 Johns. R. 156 ; 9 Johns. R. 163 ; 4 Taunt. 16 ;…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was drawn up by
Whitman C. J.
— It appears that the original right to the premises demanded was in the Proprietors of the Kennebec purchase; and that those proprietors, in 1795, in a partition by them made, assigned to the right of John Hancock, one of those proprietors, he then having deceased, lot numbered 106, of which the demanded premises are a part; and that the title to the same came by descent to Lucy Spear, wife of Samuel Spear. She deceased in 1810, leaving the demandants, her children by the said Samuel, her only heirs; and the said Samuel as tenant by the…
2Cited by1 opinion
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