Bright v. Boyd
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Maine
[In equity. Bill by John Bright against John W. Boyd for injunction and other relief. Interlocutory decree for plaintiff, and order of reference to a master.] The bill stated in substance as follows: That on the 3d day of November. 1816. John P. Boyd was seised in fee of the southerly part of lot No. 37, in Bangor, according to the survey and plan of the Settlers’ Lots, made by Park Holland, in 1801. That John P. Boyd made his will on the third day of November, 1810, a copy…
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[In equity. Bill by John Bright against John W. Boyd for injunction and other relief. Interlocutory decree for plaintiff, and order of reference to a master.] The bill stated in substance as follows: That on the 3d day of November. 1816. John P. Boyd was seised in fee of the southerly part of lot No. 37, in Bangor, according to the survey and plan of the Settlers’ Lots, made by Park Holland, in 1801. That John P. Boyd made his will on the third day of November, 1810, a copy of which is recited, and thereby bequeathed one quarter part of his estate to John Wallace Boyd, born in October, 1814,…
1Opinion of the CourtStory, Circuit Justice
But I have since thought the whole subject deserved a fuller examination and statement; and have, therefore, since that time drawn up our views more at large. Two titles are set up in the bill, as grounds of relief. The first is, that the plaintiff claims, by intermediate conveyances, the land in controversy, under an administration sale, made for the payment of debts, by the administrator with the will annexed of John P. Boyd, the testator, under whose will the defendant claims title as his ■devisee, and in virtue thereof has recovered the premises in an action at law, against Bright (the…
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