State v. Goldberg

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Incumbering a public way by buildings is, within certain limitations and exceptions, an indictable nuisance. R. S., Chap. 26, Sec. 5. The statute is but declaratory of the common law. Corthell v. Holmes, 88 Me., 376.

When buildings have fronted, for more than twenty years, as of right, on a way, the bounds of which can not be made certain, either by records or monuments; or have so existed, for not less than forty years, when records or monuments make it possible to determine the exterior limits, the buildings shall be deemed the boundaries. R. S., Chap. 27, Sec. 108;…