Hinkley & Egery Iron Co. v. Black
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On report. Trover to recover tlie value of certain personal property, situated and being in and upon township No. 39, Hancock county, and particularly upon that portion of said township, excepting the western mile strip, viz: The extract works and buildings, the circular saw mill and all tools and machinery in said works and buildings, and all staves and barrel machinery and tools, and the stable sheds and dwelling-house therein, all of the value of nine thousand dollars…
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On report. Trover to recover tlie value of certain personal property, situated and being in and upon township No. 39, Hancock county, and particularly upon that portion of said township, excepting the western mile strip, viz: The extract works and buildings, the circular saw mill and all tools and machinery in said works and buildings, and all staves and barrel machinery and tools, and the stable sheds and dwelling-house therein, all of the value of nine thousand dollars ($9,000). The question was, in which party was the title. The plaintiffs to sustain their title introduced a sealed…
1Opinion of the CourtSymonds, J.
On the seventeenth day of November, 1866, the .defendant gave to John D. Hopkins and James H. Hopkins an agreement to convey to them a large trac t of land in Hancock county upon certain specified terms and upon the express condition that the said Hopkins should pay him on or before maturity four notes for $19,260 each, payable with interest annually in one, two, three and four years from that date. If the notes and interest, or any one of the same, were not paid when due, then the obligation was to be void, time being expressly regarded, as of the essence of the agreement. The said Hop kins…
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