Case ID: nh_59/html/0575-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Bingham, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Tasker v. Cilley.
    The location on the ground of boundaries described in a deed is a question of fact.
    Trespass, quare clausum. Plea, the general issue, with a brief statement of soil and freehold. Facts 'found by a referee. The deeds through which the plaintiff derived his title described his land as bounded in part by a line running easterly to Strafford, thence southerly to the corner of a lot, thence westerly to the south-west corner of Samuel and Reuben Brown’s land. The defendant claimed that the junction of the plaintiff’s east line with a fence on the north side of the disputed territory was the point referred to in the description as the southerly corner of a lot. The referee found that the land in controversy belonged to the plaintiff.
    
      A. F. L. Norris, for the defendant.
    Whittemore, Jr., and Chase $ Streeter, for the plaintiff.
   Bingham, J.

The location on the ground of the boundaries described in the deeds was a question of fact for the determination of the referee. Madden v. Tucker, 46 Me. 367; Abbott v. Abbott, 51 Me. 575; Tebbetts v. Estes, 52 Me. 566; Williston v. Morse, 10 Met. 17, 27.

Judgment for the plaintiff.

Foster and Allen, JJ., did not sit: the others concurred.