Weeks v. Patten
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Exceptions from the Court of Common Pleas, Whitman C. J. presiding. The action was assumpsit, to recover for the use and occupation of two sevenths, in common and undivided, of a dwellinghouse, lot, and appurtenances, occupied and improved by the defendant, and situated in Portland.
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Exceptions from the Court of Common Pleas, Whitman C. J. presiding. The action was assumpsit, to recover for the use and occupation of two sevenths, in common and undivided, of a dwellinghouse, lot, and appurtenances, occupied and improved by the defendant, and situated in Portland. The plaintiff proved, that the premises were part of the estate of Jane Robinson, deceased; that Jane Robinson was married to Arthur McLellan, and had by him seven children, of whom the plaintiff and Arthur McLellan, Jr. are two; that Arthur McLellan, the father, continued to improve the premises, by himself or…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court, was drawn up by
Émery J.
It is contended by the defendant, 1st. That no action can be maintained. 2d. If any action can be sustained, assumpsit cannot. The items of the will on which the defendant relies, are the third, sixth, ninth, tenth, twelfth, eighteenth, and nineteenth. The plaintiff claims the benefit of the first and eighth.
The principle, adopted in Courts of Equity, is, that if a person, being about to dispose of his own property, includes in his disposition, either from mistake or not, property of another, an implication arises, that the benefit under that…
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