Payson v. Hall
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Writ op entry to recover a lot of land with a house thereon, in Oldtown. To prove title the demandant offered a deed to her from Lore Alford, in his capacity of collector ¡of taxes of the town of Oldtown, for the year 1841, dated May 6, 1842, duly acknowledged, and recorded November 26, 1842; also, the records of assessments and valuation of said town, for the year 1841, from which she read the certificate of Samuel Cony and Joshua Wood, as assessors of Oldtown, for the year…
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Writ op entry to recover a lot of land with a house thereon, in Oldtown. To prove title the demandant offered a deed to her from Lore Alford, in his capacity of collector ¡of taxes of the town of Oldtown, for the year 1841, dated May 6, 1842, duly acknowledged, and recorded November 26, 1842; also, the records of assessments and valuation of said town, for the year 1841, from which she read the certificate of Samuel Cony and Joshua Wood, as assessors of Oldtown, for the year 1841, dated May 7, 1841; also, as set against the name of Isaac Smith, for the year 1841, “ house and lot occupied by…
1Opinion of the CourtShepley, C. J.
— By ibis writ of entry the demandant claims to recover a dwellinghouse and lot situated in the town of Oldtown.
In proof of her title she produced a deed from Lore Alford, made by him in his capacity of collector of taxes for that town, for the year 1841, and purporting to convey the premises to her. The taxes for that year, having been assessed, before the Revised Statutes were in force, were to be collected according to the provisions of former statutes. It was provided by the act of March 12, 1831, that it should be sufficient for a party claiming under such a title, to produce in evidence…
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