Segar v. Babcock

The plaintiff sued in trespass and ejectment for a piece of land, occupied by the defendant as tenant under Samuel G. Babcock, claiming title under a deed from the heirs of Rowse Babcock, dated October 1, 1887, conveying to him the Dixon House estate, so called,1 in Westerly. At that time a solid brick wall stood upon the easterly line of the piece of land in question, separating it from the hotel estate, but said piece of land was owned by the plaintiff’s grantors, at the time of their deed to him, subject to a right of way over it, previously granted by deed to Joseph H. Lewis, a…