Inhabitants of the First Parish v. Dunning

This was an action of trespass for breaking and entering the close of the plaintiffs. The parties agreed to submit the cause to the determination of the Court upon certain facts stated. If thereon the Court should be of opinion that the plaintiffs were entitled by law to maintain the action, judgment was to be rendered in their favor for a sum agreed as damage, and for costs; otherwise they were to become nonsuit, and the defendants to have judgment for their costs. The facts agreed were, that the Pejejpscut proprietors, so called, being seised in fee of a. large tract of land, including [ *…