Legal Opinion

Kaler v. Beaman

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine

Decided July 1, 1860PublishedCited by 5 opinions

On Report. Trespass quare clausum fregit, for cutting plaintiff’s flume and encumbering his land with lumber, &c. The case is stated in the opinion.

1Opinion of the Court

The opinion of the Court was drawn up’by

Rice, J.

December 19, 1845, Joseph Kaler, whose title *208tbe plaintiff now has, conveyed to Daniel Merrill, under whom the defendants claim title, a tract of laud in Belfast which is particularly described by monuments, "with the right of a free and open road where it now travels, from the high way ” to the described parcel, being a mill privilege; also, the "right to draw from said Kaler’s flume, when it shall best convene said Merrill, "water enough, applied to an overshot wheel, to carry a gang of thirty marble saws or a six horse power.”

By this deed,…

2Cited by5 opinions

  1. Beckwith v. RossiSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1961
  2. Badger v. HillSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1979
  3. Reed v. AC McLoon & CompanySupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1973
  4. Maasen v. ShawMissouri Court of Appeals · 2004
  5. Poire v. ManchesterSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1986

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