Adams v. Clapp
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On motion and exceptions. This was a real action to recover a small piece of land situate on the western shore of Schoodic lake in Piscataquis county. The plaintiffs derived their title from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts through mesne conveyances. The locus is a part of township four, range eight, north of Waldo patent. The defendant claimed title by adverse possession.
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On motion and exceptions. This was a real action to recover a small piece of land situate on the western shore of Schoodic lake in Piscataquis county. The plaintiffs derived their title from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts through mesne conveyances. The locus is a part of township four, range eight, north of Waldo patent. The defendant claimed title by adverse possession. The jury • returned a verdict for the defendant, and the plaintiffs filed a general motion for a new trial and also took exceptions to a part of the charge given to the jury by the presiding j ustice. The material facts…
1Opinion of the CourtFoster, J.
Fifty years ago, a predecessor in title to the defendant purchased a tract of land containing about sixty acres, described as lying in the town of Brownville, in the county of Piscataquis, and bounded on the east by the shore of Schoodic Lake. Instead of the east line of Brownville being on the shore of the lake, it was in fact three or four rods west of the shore of Schoodic Lake, thereby leaving a strip of land along the westerly shore about three rods in width by eighteen in length, lying in another township. That is the subject of this controversy.
The title to this small strip was not in…
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