Ham v. Sawyer
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On Report from Nisi Prius, Rice, J., presiding. Trespass for taking the plaintiff’s horse. The defendant justified as collector of taxes of the town of Monmouth for the year 1852, and a sale thereof under a warrant from the assessors of that town for that year.
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On Report from Nisi Prius, Rice, J., presiding. Trespass for taking the plaintiff’s horse. The defendant justified as collector of taxes of the town of Monmouth for the year 1852, and a sale thereof under a warrant from the assessors of that town for that year. A tax was committed to defendant to collect assessed on the plaintiff’s poll, real and personal estate to the amount of $10,94. After the evidence was introduced, the case was taken from the jury, by consent, to be determined by the full Court, they having power to draw such inferences as a jury might from the testimony, and to enter…
1Opinion of the CourtTenney, J.
—By an Act of the Legislature of Massachusetts passed on March 3d, 1809, entitled an Act to rectify and establish the line between the towns of Monmouth and Leeds in the county of Kennebec, it was provided, that the line between those towns shall hereafter be as follows, viz *40beginning at a stake and stones about fifteen rods west of the Bog stream, so called; thence running south 9 degrees West to a beech tree on the south line of Monmouth.
It is admitted by the parties that prior to the passage of the Act referred to, the line between the territory of Monmouth and of Leeds was west of the…
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