Bowie v. Landry

This case comes to the Law Court on plaintiffs’ exceptions. The action is a writ of entry describing certain land in Androscoggin County and alleging that the plaintiffs are the owners in common, and that the defendant disseized them within twenty years, and unjustly* withholds. The declaration seeks rents and profits, for trees: cut, and other waste. The defendant pleaded nul disseisin. with a brief statement claiming res judicata, and also claimed an estoppel, because one of the plaintiffs, for the benefit of all, had previously brought trespass quare clausum alleging trees cut and removed,…