Gibbs v. Larrabee
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On Report from Nisi Prius, Howard, J.,.'presiding. Trespass, quare clausum. The case was submitted to the Court with power to draw such inferences from* the testimony a-s a jury might, and tor enter such judgment as the rights of the parties mightrequire. The facts found by the Court are detailed, in the opinion-.-
1Opinion of the CourtRice, J.
-— The plan of the locus in quo, referred to in ithe report has not come into the hands of the Court. We understand, however, that the land of the plaintiff lies north of, and adjoining to the county road; that the brook is north of plaintiff’s land, and that the house built by Ball, and afterwards occupied by Thompson, is situated north of the brook. The way, across which the plaintiff had constructed .a fence, led from the county road, over his land, and across the brook, to the Thompson house. For removing the fence thus erected by the plaintiff on land of which he was the owner of the…
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