Tibbetts v. Carpenter

ARCHIBALD, Justice.

This real action sought to resolve a dispute over the locus of the more southerly bound of defendants’ land which separated it from that of the plaintiffs. Additionally, plaintiffs claimed a right to use a “woods road” which they “and their predecessors in title have used for a period in excess of twenty years.” They also sought damages for the cutting of various forest products on their land by the defendants.

The case was referred and, in due course, the referee filed his report to which plaintiffs seasonably objected, but on defendants’ motion the report was accepted. On…