Brown v. Gerald
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
In Equity. On report. Bill in equity praying for an injunction to restrain the defendants from erecting a line of poles and wires across the plaintiff’s farm in Benton, Kennebec County.
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In Equity. On report. Bill in equity praying for an injunction to restrain the defendants from erecting a line of poles and wires across the plaintiff’s farm in Benton, Kennebec County. When this cause came on to be heard before the Justice of the first instance upon a motion for a temporary injunction, the parties agreed that the answer and replication should be waived and that the testimony and admissions should stand as if taken upon a hearing for a final decree, and that the cause be reported to the Law Court and that “upon so much of the testimony as is legally admissible the Law Court…
1Opinion of the CourtSavage, J.
Bill in equity praying for an injunction to restrain the defendants from erecting a line of poles and wires across the plaintiff’s farm in Benton. The case comes up on report. The defendants admit an intention to erect the line of poles and wires, but claim they have a right to do so under the charter of the Sebasticook Manufacturing and Power Company, one of the defendants, of which Mr. Gerald, the other defendant, is the president and general manager. It is therefore necessary to examine the charter of the defendant corporation, chap. 86, Private and Special Laws of 1899, as amended by…
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