Weeks v. Hackett
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions and motions by defendant. Actions of trover, one by each plaintiff, brought to recover one-third in value of a certain quantity of coins of the United States and of certain foreign coins, alleged to have been found by each plaintiff jointly with the other plaintiff and with the defendant in three metallic cans buried and concealed in the soil and underneath the surface of land owned by one Leonard J. Hackett in the town of New Vineyard.
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On exceptions and motions by defendant. Actions of trover, one by each plaintiff, brought to recover one-third in value of a certain quantity of coins of the United States and of certain foreign coins, alleged to have been found by each plaintiff jointly with the other plaintiff and with the defendant in three metallic cans buried and concealed in the soil and underneath the surface of land owned by one Leonard J. Hackett in the town of New Vineyard. Plea in each case, the general issue with the following brief statement in each case: " 1. Defendant claims and says he is the owner of the…
1Opinion of the CourtWhitehouse, J.
These were actions of trover brought by each of these plaintiffs to recover one-third in value of a certain quantity of coins of the United States and of certain foreign coins, alleged to have been found by each plaintiff jointly with the other and with the defendant Fessenden E. Hackett. It is not in controversy that the coins in question of the aggregate par value of $1,284.67 were found contained in three metallic cans buried and concealed in the soil and underneath the surface of land owned by one Leonard J. Hackett in the town of New Vineyard; and it appears in evidence that after the…
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