Inhabitants of Milford v. Godfrey
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Trespass quare clausum fregit for pulling down a meet inghouse, alleged to belong to the plaintiffs, and carrying away the materials of which it was composed. Plea, the general issue. The following facts appeared in the report of Wilde J., who tried the cause.
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Trespass quare clausum fregit for pulling down a meet inghouse, alleged to belong to the plaintiffs, and carrying away the materials of which it was composed. Plea, the general issue. The following facts appeared in the report of Wilde J., who tried the cause. A precinct, in the easterly part of the town of Mention, was incorporated by an act passed on the 23d of December, 1741. Soon after their organization under this act, the precinct built the meetinghouse in question, upon the land mentioned in the plaintiff’s declaration, which land was conveyed to the precinct by Ichabod Robinson, in…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was read by Putnam J. at the April term 1823,- as drawn up by
Parker C. J.
The questions in this case grow out of the facts reported by the judge, and the records referred to in his report ; from which sources it appears, that the present town of Milford, with some little variation, which we think immaterial, before the year 1780, when it was incorporated as a town, existed as a precinct, called The Easterly Precinct in the Town of Mention, of which town it was a part, having been incorporated as a precinct in the year 1741. In the year 1743, the meetinghouse, which is…
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