Brookings v. White
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Reported from JSfisi Prius, May, J., presiding. This was a process of forcible entry and detainer, commenced before the Judge of the Municipal Court for the city of Bath. The respondent pleaded the general issue, with a brief statement alleging title in Nancy White, under whom he justified as her tenant and servant. The case was thereupon brought into this Court, as the statute provides.
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Reported from JSfisi Prius, May, J., presiding. This was a process of forcible entry and detainer, commenced before the Judge of the Municipal Court for the city of Bath. The respondent pleaded the general issue, with a brief statement alleging title in Nancy White, under whom he justified as her tenant and servant. The case was thereupon brought into this Court, as the statute provides. The complainant claimed under the deed of John Brookings to himself of the premises demanded, dated April 13, 1860 ; the respondent, under a deed from the same grantor to said Nancy White, his wife, of a…
1Opinion of the CourtRice, J.
This is a process of forcible entry and detain-er. The defendant justifies under the title of Nancy White, and the case must be determined on the validity of that title. Both parties derive their title from one John Brookings, who, on the 31st day of October, 1857, executed a deed of the premises to said Nancy White, who is the wife of the defendant. In payment for the estate thus conveyed she gave her promissory notes for six hundred dollars, which sum *481was secured by mortgage on the premises; and also conveyed another parcel of real estate, which, she held in her own right, to Sarah…
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