Sawyer v. Woodbury
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Action of tort for breaking and entering the plaintiff’s close in Bast Boston. The case was tried at March term 1855, before Merrick, J., and by him reported, after a verdict for the defendant, to the full court, and is fully stated in their opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Shaw C. J.
This is an action of tort, in which the plaintiff alleges his possession of a close at East Boston, a wrongful entry thereupon by the defendant, expelling the plaintiff therefrom, and holding him out to the time of the commencement of the suit.
The plaintiff’s claim of title was upon a lease for five years, made to him by the defendant, of a wharf at East Boston, with a patent planing machine upon it, of which the defendant was the patentee, together with a steam engine, boiler and apparatus for carrying on the same.
The defendant, by his answer, admitted the lease by himself to the…
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