Wallingford v. Fiske
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
At the trial, before Whitman C. J. the demandant, to support his writ of entry, read a deed of the demanded premises from Frederick French to the late George W. Walling-ford of Kennebunk, dated March 12,. 1804, and proved that he was a son of the deceased, and produced conveyances from the other heirs of their shares. The land had never been improved, but remained in the original wild state.
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At the trial, before Whitman C. J. the demandant, to support his writ of entry, read a deed of the demanded premises from Frederick French to the late George W. Walling-ford of Kennebunk, dated March 12,. 1804, and proved that he was a son of the deceased, and produced conveyances from the other heirs of their shares. The land had never been improved, but remained in the original wild state. The tenants claimed under a tax title, by deed dated August 31, 1819. After the evidence had all been introduced, the case was taken from the jury by consent of parties, and submitted to the decision of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was drawn up by
Tenney J.
Frederick French, who derived his title from the original proprietors of the south half of the township, which is now Milford, conveyed to George W. Wallingford, 825 acres thereof, by deed d_ated March 12, 1804. Walling-ford died in 1824, leaving four children, his only heirs; the demandant being one, received conveyances from the others of their interest in the same land which was wild. The tenants claim under a sale of the whole township to them, made for the non-payment of county taxes, by George Watson, sheriff of the county of Hancock, on…
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