Maddox v. Goddard
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
The writ contained one count, trespass quare clausum, for breaking and entering the plaintiff’s close in Cornish, called the Durgin mill privilege, and tearing down, and destroying the plaintiff’s sawmill, and carrying away the materials thereof and converting the same to their own use ; and another count, trespass de honis aspor-tatis, for tearing down the plaintiff’s sawmill, and destroying and carrying away the materials of the same.
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The writ contained one count, trespass quare clausum, for breaking and entering the plaintiff’s close in Cornish, called the Durgin mill privilege, and tearing down, and destroying the plaintiff’s sawmill, and carrying away the materials thereof and converting the same to their own use ; and another count, trespass de honis aspor-tatis, for tearing down the plaintiff’s sawmill, and destroying and carrying away the materials of the same. On the trial it was proved, that the defendants entered upon the premises and cut and tore down and prostrated the mill, and carried away the materials…
1Opinion of the Court
The case was continued for advisement, and the opinion of the Court afterwards prepared by
Shepley J.
The argument for each party admits the general and well established rule, that trespass cannot be maintained by a tenant in common, against his co-tenant; and that it can in certain cases be maintained, when the common property has been d,er stroyed.
It is contended for the plaintiff, that the right to maintain this action for the destruction of the common property applies as well to houses, mills and other matters, which are portions of the realty, as to personal property, While it is contended…
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