Howard v. Wadsworth
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
This was a writ of entry on the seisin of the demandant, brought to recover possession of “ a certain grist mill, with the “privileges and appurtenances thereof, standing on a mill-privilege” in Brownfield.
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This was a writ of entry on the seisin of the demandant, brought to recover possession of “ a certain grist mill, with the “privileges and appurtenances thereof, standing on a mill-privilege” in Brownfield. Both parties claimed under Samuel and Thomas Howard, who, in 1807, conveyed to the tenants “ one undivided half of a certain mill lot lying in Brownfield, beginning ata bridge on ten “milebrook, containing all the falls, with the privilege of flow- “ ing the pond for the benefit of the mills on said falls,” &c. “ together with one undivided half of the dam, saw-mill, and slip, “ with all…
1Opinion of the Court
Mft,len C. J.
delivered the opinion of the Court, at the adjournment of the following November term in Cumberland.
By the report it appears that Samuel, and Thomas Howard were in Oct. 1807, owners of the whole of the mill privilege, mills, mill-dams and privileges therein mentioned ; that Oct.'S, 1807, they conveyed to the tenants one undivided half part of the same in fee simple, “but exclusive of the grist mill now on said falls, “ with the right of maintaining the same, and also the dwelliug- “ house and sheds now on the premises —that Nov. 21, 1807, the same grantors conveyed to the…
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