Weston v. Hunt
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
In this action the plaintiff demands possession of a lot of land in the township of Gray, in this county, which he alleges was, in the original division of the township, appropriated to the use of the minister of Gray for the time being; that he was, on the 26th of October, 1803, duly settled and ordained as the minister of said Gray, and still so continues, “ and ought, by the law of the land, to be in the quiet possession of said lot of land, and enjoying the use thereof…
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In this action the plaintiff demands possession of a lot of land in the township of Gray, in this county, which he alleges was, in the original division of the township, appropriated to the use of the minister of Gray for the time being; that he was, on the 26th of October, 1803, duly settled and ordained as the minister of said Gray, and still so continues, “ and ought, by the law of the land, to be in the quiet possession of said lot of land, and enjoying the use thereof without hinderance or molestation. *Yet [*501] the said Moses Hunt, without right or judgment of law, hath entered into…
1Opinion of the Court
Parsons, C. J.,
delivered t.he opinion of the Court, as follows : —■
So far'as we can recollect from the declaration, the plaintiff demands the land described in his writ, as minister of the town of Gray, and in right of his town. After stating, very unnecessarily, the title, but without declaring on his own seisin, or the seisin of any predecessor, he concludes by averring that he ought to have quiet possession, and that the defendant has turned him out of possession— whence, by implication, it may be inferred that the defendant entered on him when in possession. Upon trial on the issue of not…
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