Soutter v. Porter
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
This was a petition for partition. At the trial before Shepley J. the petitioners read a deed of release to themselves from Stephen Goodhue, dated Aug. 29, 1844, acknowledged same day, and recorded Aug. 29, 1844, conveying all interest in the premises.
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This was a petition for partition. At the trial before Shepley J. the petitioners read a deed of release to themselves from Stephen Goodhue, dated Aug. 29, 1844, acknowledged same day, and recorded Aug. 29, 1844, conveying all interest in the premises. Respondent read a deed, dated April 1, 1833, recorded 2d same April, Micajah Drinkwater to John McLaflin, conveying one half of the premises in common; deed of mortgage of same date, of same premises from the grantor to grantee, re-conveying same in mortgage, recorded April 10th, 1833. An assignment of that mortgage from Drinkwater to the…
1Opinion of the Court
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Sheplev J.
The petitioners claim to be the owners as tenants in common of a moiety of a lot of land in the city of *416Bangor, upon which two dwellinghouses adjoining each other have been erected, and to have their share set off for their separate enjoyment.
The respondent denies their seizin as tenants in common. The question presented is, whether they have, by the testimony introduced, established any title as tenants in common.
The respondent shows, that he is the owner of an undivided moiety of the premises in fee, having derived his title from a deed of…
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