Bates Manufacturing Company v. Franklin Company

WILLIAMSON, Chief Justice.

The plaintiff Bates Manufacturing Company (hereinafter called Bates) sought and obtained a judgment forever barring certain restrictions on the Triangle Lot, so-called, as a cloud on title. Of the three defendants only Franklin Company (hereinafter called Franklin) appeals.

The facts are not in dispute. By indenture in 1862 Franklin conveyed to Andro-scoggin Mills, predecessor in title to Bates, the Triangle Lot, so-called, being part of a larger lot, in Lewiston, subject to the following restriction:

“ * * * that so much of the said lot as is southerly of said street…