Pickering v. Cassidy
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On Report. This was a petition for review dated January 21, 1898. The facts are stated in the opinion. The statute applies to cases decided by a referee under rule of court.
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On Report. This was a petition for review dated January 21, 1898. The facts are stated in the opinion. The statute applies to cases decided by a referee under rule of court. Gooding v. Baker, 60 Maine, 52. Tn Morrell v. Kimball, 1 Maine, 322, (1821), Weston, J., on page 324, says: “As reviews no longer exist as a matter of right, it has become the more necessary that the Court should be governed by liberal principles in the exercise of their discretion, that there may be no occasion again to resort to the legislature for the restoration of this process as a writ of right, which was formerly…
1Opinion of the CourtEmery, J.
The history is this: The petitioners were the owners of the west half of Township No. 3, Range 8, North of the Waldo Patent in, Penobscot county. The respondent was the owner of the half township next north viz: — the west half of Township Np. 3, Range 9. Hence the original division line between the two tracts was the original range line running east and west between Range 8 on the south and Range 9 on the north. This original range line, if ever actually run between the townships, (Nos. 3 in each range) was run in 1794 by Samuel Weston appointed surveyor for that purpose by the proper…
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