Hornblower v. Banton
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions by defendant Samuel L. Haskell. Real action to recover Lot 21 in LaGrange, Penobscot County. Herbert J. Banton, Samuel L. Haskell and one Bean are the defendants. (The Christian name of the defendant Bean is not disclosed by the case as sent to the Law Court.) Tried at the January term, 1907, of the Supreme Judicial Court, Penobscot County.
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On exceptions by defendant Samuel L. Haskell. Real action to recover Lot 21 in LaGrange, Penobscot County. Herbert J. Banton, Samuel L. Haskell and one Bean are the defendants. (The Christian name of the defendant Bean is not disclosed by the case as sent to the Law Court.) Tried at the January term, 1907, of the Supreme Judicial Court, Penobscot County. (Plea not disclosed by the case.) At the conclusion of the evidence, the presiding Justice instructed the jury to return a verdict for the plaintiff which was done. The defendant Haskell excepted to this instruction and also to a ruling…
1Opinion of the CourtPeabody, J.
This was a real action to recover Lot 21 in the town of LaGrange, Penobscot County. The case comes before the Law Court on exceptions by one of the defendants to the ruling of the presiding Justice excluding evidence.
The plaintiff introduced evidence establishing a record title to the lot in question. The defendants then presented a chain of record title to the same lot but originating later than that of the plaintiff' and they offered further to prove such acts of occupation for a period of more than twenty years of a part of Lot No. 1, as would constitute adverse possession, proposing to…
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