Longfellow v. Quimby
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
This was an action for trespass upon certain lots in townships numbered six and seven in the county of Washington. The writ was dated in April, 1845. The cause came on for trial at the last term of this Court, before Whitman, C. J. The plaintiff read a deed from George S. Smith, county treasurer, to him of 10,674 acres of land in east half of township numbered six, dated Oct. 22, 1840, and another deed of the same date, from said Smith as county treasurer, to the plaintiff…
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This was an action for trespass upon certain lots in townships numbered six and seven in the county of Washington. The writ was dated in April, 1845. The cause came on for trial at the last term of this Court, before Whitman, C. J. The plaintiff read a deed from George S. Smith, county treasurer, to him of 10,674 acres of land in east half of township numbered six, dated Oct. 22, 1840, and another deed of the same date, from said Smith as county treasurer, to the plaintiff of 29,000 acres in township numbered seven. It was admitted, that said townships were lotted prior to the assessment of…
1Opinion of the CourtTenney, J.
The plaintiff claims title to the land, on which he alleges that the trespass has been committed by the defendants, under a sale made by the treasurer of the county of Washington, to him on October 9th, 1840. This sale was for the purpose of obtaining the tax, which had been assessed upon the land by the county commissioners of that county, to make *201the road laid by them through the townships, in which the land was situated.
The defendants deny the title claimed by the plaintiff', and therefore his right to maintain this action, upon the ground, that the records of the county commissioners,…
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