Gowen v. Bessey

This is an action of trespass quare clausum. The locus is described as lot No. 165 in the New Cemetery, so called, in the town of Brooks.

*115In 1887, the town of Brooks, under a vote of the town, purchased a parcel of land as an addition to its cemetery, and had the land so purchased surveyed and divided into lots, the bounds of which were permanently marked, and caused a plan to be made upon which the lots were designated and numbered. By vote of the town non-residents were charged twenty dollars per lot. Lots were furnished to inhabitants of the town free of chai’ge, though the town never so…