Pierce v. Faunce
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On Report from Nisi Prius, Wells, J., presiding. Trespass quare clausum, and cutting two trees. The cutting of the trees was admitted, and their value; and both parties claimed title to the land on which they stood.
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On Report from Nisi Prius, Wells, J., presiding. Trespass quare clausum, and cutting two trees. The cutting of the trees was admitted, and their value; and both parties claimed title to the land on which they stood. The plaintiff claimed title under a levy made in 1842, upon the land as the property of William Prince, on an execution in favor of William Cousins, and by a deed of the land levied upon, from said Cousins to himself, dated in 1845. The defendant traced his title, by introducing a deed of warranty from James Dunn to Robert Waterman, for the consideration of $500, dated May 3,…
1Opinion of the CourtHoward, J.
— The plaintiff claims title under a levy of execution upon the locus in quo, as the property of William Prince, in July, 1842. The defendant not denying the acts of alleged trespass, justifies under one deriving title from Prince, in 1836. It is assumed by the parties that the premises are a part, at least, of “ lot marked G, in Hebron.”
In 1814, Dunn conveyed to Waterman by deed of general warranty, “ a certain tract of land situated in Hebron, (now Oxford,) in the county of Oxford, containing sixty-seven acres, more or less, and being on the north side of the lot marked “ G-,” in said…
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