Reed v. Proprietors of Locks and Canals on Merrimac River
Supreme Court of the United States
This case was brought up, by writ of error, from the Circuit Court of the State of Massachusetts. It was a suit brought by Reed, a citizen of Michigan, against an incorporated company, called “ The Proprietors of Locks and Canals on Merrimac River,” in a plea of land, wherein the said Reed demanded against the proprietors a certain piece or parcel of land in the city of Lowell and State of Massachusetts, containing seven acres and one hundred and forty-two and a quarter…
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This case was brought up, by writ of error, from the Circuit Court of the State of Massachusetts. It was a suit brought by Reed, a citizen of Michigan, against an incorporated company, called “ The Proprietors of Locks and Canals on Merrimac River,” in a plea of land, wherein the said Reed demanded against the proprietors a certain piece or parcel of land in the city of Lowell and State of Massachusetts, containing seven acres and one hundred and forty-two and a quarter square rods. The state of the case was this. It was admitted that the demanded premises were part of the farm of Thomas…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Grier
The plaintiff in error was demandant below in a writ of entry, in which he claimed about eight acres of land in the city of Lowell.
The demandant claimed under Benjamin Melvin, who, it is admitted, was seized of the land in dispute, as part of a larger tract, in 1782. One undivided moiety of this tract Melvin held in right of his wife, and the other in his own right.
The tenants claimed under a mortgage given by Benjamin Melvin and wife to Jacob Kittredge, on the 27th day of April, 1782. In 1789, Kittredge entered under his mortgage, and leased the premises to Melvin. In 1796, Kittredge…
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