Gray v. Berry
Superior Court of New Hampshire
Trover for six cords of wood. Plea, the general issue. It appeared in evidence that the defendant and one Charles Fulker owned land adjoining each other, and that the plaintiff, by permission of said Fulker, cut the wood in controversy, near the lines of said lots, and, as the plaintiff contended, upon said Fulker’s land.
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Trover for six cords of wood. Plea, the general issue. It appeared in evidence that the defendant and one Charles Fulker owned land adjoining each other, and that the plaintiff, by permission of said Fulker, cut the wood in controversy, near the lines of said lots, and, as the plaintiff contended, upon said Fulker’s land. The plaintiff proved that in 1822 the then owners of said tracts of land, by agreement established the line known by the name of the Otis line, as the true boundary of their respective tracts of land, and by this line so established the land on which the wood was cut was the…
1Opinion of the CourtUpham, J.
In this case, one Charles Fulker and the defendant owned lands adjoining each other, and the plaintiff, by permission of Fulker, cut wood near the line of these lots, which wood the defendant carried away, claiming that it was cut upon his land.
It appeared that in 1822 the then owners of the land agreed upon a line which is known by the name of the Otis line, as the true boundary of their respective titles. By the line, as then established, the land where the wood now in controversy was cut would be the property of Fulker.
Subsequently, in 1832, the then owners of the land caused a new survey…
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