Hilton v. Hilton
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Petition for partition. On report. Petition dismissed. Petition for partition brought in the Supreme Judicial Court, Somerset County.
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Petition for partition. On report. Petition dismissed. Petition for partition brought in the Supreme Judicial Court, Somerset County. The petition is as follows : "To tbe Honorable Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court next to be holden at Skowhegan, within and for the County of Somerset, on the third Tuesday of September, A. D. 1906. "Respectfully represents Joshua Hilton of Norridgewock in the County of Somerset that he, as tenant in common, is seized in fee simple of one undivided half of the following described real estate situated in Anson, said County of Somerset, and bounded and…
1Opinion of the CourtEmery, C. J.
Joshua Hilton died intestate leaving two children only, as heirs, the petitioner and the respondent in this petition for a partition of the real estate of the deceased intestate. The respondent claims that the petitioner received from their father in his lifetime a gift and grant which the petitioner accepted and acknowledged in writing as a full advancement of all his distributive share in the real and personal estate of his father, and hence has no title to any part of the real estate sought to be divided.
In this State the whole subject matter of the devolution of the property of a deceased…
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