Fletcher v. Somerset Railroad
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
ON report on agreed statement. The plaintiff brings this bill as administratrix on the estate of George A. Fletcher against the Somerset Railroad Company, John Ware and Fred A. Coolidge.
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ON report on agreed statement. The plaintiff brings this bill as administratrix on the estate of George A. Fletcher against the Somerset Railroad Company, John Ware and Fred A. Coolidge. The bill sets out that the complainant as administratrix recovered judgment against the railroad company October 18, 1881, for one thousand two hundred and one dollars damages, and forty-eight dollars and nine cents costs of suit, and November 11, 1881, she caused the same to be levied on certain l’eal estate of the company in Anson — a real estate attachment having been made on the original writ February 17,…
1Opinion of the CourtPeters, J.
Waiving all preliminary questions standing in the way of it, we will examine the question, whether the appraisers In the first levy were competent persons for the duty performed ■by them. It is alleged that they were not disinterested, because 4he town, in which they resided and whore they possessed taxable estates, was a stockholder in the railroad corporation upon ithe property of which the execution was extended. The town ■.•of Anson was a stockholder in its corporate capacity in the Som-•ersetEailroad Company. The execution was against the railroad ■company. Two of the appraisers were…
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