Doggett v. Emerson
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Maine
[This was a bill in equity by John Doggett against William Emerson and others.] The bill, in substance, stated as follows: “That on or about the twenty-first day of February, in the year 1S35, William Emerson.
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[This was a bill in equity by John Doggett against William Emerson and others.] The bill, in substance, stated as follows: “That on or about the twenty-first day of February, in the year 1S35, William Emerson. Amos M. Roberts, Isaac Farrar, Joseph W. Mason, and Nicholas G. Noreross, all of Bangor, in the state of Maine, merchants, defendants hereinafter named, purchased of the state of Maine, a township of land, numbered three in the thirteenth range of townships west from the east line of the state, containing, exclusive of land covered by water and the public lots reserved by the state,…
1Opinion of the Court
STORY, Circuit Justice.
This is one of that unfortunate class of cases, which grew out of the marvellous spirit of speculation in timber lands, which a few years ago pervaded the whole state of Maine, and spread such wide ruin and disaster in many directions, and produced a most sad spectacle of delusion and moral infirmity. The cause has been argued at great length, and with great ability. I shall not pretend to go over the complicated facts presented in the printed record; but shall principally advert to those questions, which, in my judgment, involve the substantial merits of the case, and…
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