Heaton v. Hodges
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
This was a writ of entry on the seisin of the demandants. They derived their title to the lot in question, being 95 containing 110 acres, from Knapp and associates to whom the Commonwealth of Massachusetts granted the territory, now embraced within the limits of Brewer &f Orrington, on the 29th of June, 1785, the deed being recorded May 2,1798. The tenant claimed title under the grant of the Provincial Legislature of Massachusetts, of six Townships on the east side of…
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This was a writ of entry on the seisin of the demandants. They derived their title to the lot in question, being 95 containing 110 acres, from Knapp and associates to whom the Commonwealth of Massachusetts granted the territory, now embraced within the limits of Brewer &f Orrington, on the 29th of June, 1785, the deed being recorded May 2,1798. The tenant claimed title under the grant of the Provincial Legislature of Massachusetts, of six Townships on the east side of Penobscot river, made on the 2d of March, 1762, of which Bucksport was one, and it was admitted that the tenant had title to…
1Opinion of the Court
After a continuance for advisement, the opinion of the Court was drawn up by
Weston C. J.
The title of both parties originates from the same source. But the tenant deduces his from an elder grant; and he has a right therefore to have his lot located according to that *69grant, whether it does or does not conflict with the title of the demandants. The starting point at Penobscot river, from which the line in controversy is to he run, and the course of that line are known and agreed. By the grant, under which the tenant claims, that line was to be five miles and one hundred and eiglity-four rods in…
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