Winslow v. Patten
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On FACTS AGREED. Writ of entry to recover certain flats, lying between high water and low water marks, upon Fore river, an arm of the sea. So far as involved in the present controversy, the demand-ants are to be considered as owning one quarter of the flats, by inheritance from the late William Vaughan, unless the same were included in his deed to Donnell, under whom the tenants claim.
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On FACTS AGREED. Writ of entry to recover certain flats, lying between high water and low water marks, upon Fore river, an arm of the sea. So far as involved in the present controversy, the demand-ants are to be considered as owning one quarter of the flats, by inheritance from the late William Vaughan, unless the same were included in his deed to Donnell, under whom the tenants claim. That deed conveyed a lot or square of land extending down to and bounded by Fore river, “ reserving a street through said square of forty feet in width, at the distance of 130 feet south of Bridge street, and…
1Opinion of the CourtWells, J.
The determination of the question presented depends upon the construction of the deed from William Vaughan to James Donnell. If the demanded premises passed by that conveyance, the tenants are entitled to recover. The description of that part of the premises in controversy is as follows: — “ Square No. nine, lying and being on the south side of Bridge street in said Portland, bounded northerly on said Bridge Street four hundred and twenty-nine feet, easterly by a street of sixty feet, southerly by Fore river, westerly by a street forty-five feet in width, reserving a street through said…
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