Pitts v. Temple
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This action was brought to recover possession of a certain parcel of land in Waterville, in this county. Upon the general issue pleaded, the cause was tried before Thatcher, J., September term, 1805, and a verdict returned for the demandant. Exceptions were filed to some opinions of the judge at the trial, which are stated in the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the Court
Curia.
This cause comes before .the Court on exceptions to the judge, before whom the issue was tried, for admitting illegal evidence. The demandant counts on his own seisin within twenty years, and on a disseisin by the tenant. On the trial of the general issue, it appeared that the demandant’s title, under which he claimed, was, that the proprietors of the Kennebeck Purchase were once seised in fee of the tenements; that they conveyed the same in fee to James Pitts, father of the demandant; that, on the death of James Pitts, his lands were distributed among his children by a decree of the…
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