Taylor v. Richardson

McKUSICK, Chief Justice.

Defendant Arthur Richardson appeals from a Superior Court (Waldo County) judgment declaring title in plaintiffs Stephen and Louise Taylor to a certain lot of land in Freedom and awarding plaintiffs $1,000 damages for defendant’s acts of trespass on that property. On appeal defendant contends that the justice who presided at the jury trial erred i)' by excluding parol evidence tending to show that a 1924 deed in plaintiffs’ chain of title was intended by the grantor to convey only a fee simple determinable and ii) by ruling that, under the doctrine of estoppel by…