Mason v. Kennebec & Portland Rail Road

This action is case, in which the plaintiff alleges, that he was seized as in his demesne of fee of a certain farm described, from April 14, 1845, to October, 1848, and during that time ought to have had a private way from his house to another part of his farm : that the defendants in October, 1848, built a rail road with a deep fill and high embankments, intending unjustly to disturb him, across the entire width of said farm, and thereby wholly obstructed and deprived the plaintiff of his way, up to the day of the date of the writ, which was May 16, 1849.

The defendants pleaded the general…