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Timestamp: 2019-04-19 10:16:55+00:00

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Majority:	WATHEN, C.J., and CLIFFORD, RUDMAN, ALEXANDER, and CALKINS, JJ.
LISLE A. EATON et al.
TOWN OF WELLS et al.
property.  Finding no error, we affirm the judgment.
deferred action on the motion until the trial.
the Eatons' motion as to the remaining counts of the Town's counterclaim.
in 1892 and shown on the plans of the Wells Beach Improvement Company.
entered a final judgment based on the prior decisions in the bifurcated trial.
Town cross-appealed.  Thereafter, the Town filed a motion to suspend M.R.
Wells Harbor or the mouth of the Webhannet River) to the north.
and the Town maintained the beach.
to the party against whom the judgment was entered."  Rodrigue v.
entitled to judgment as a matter of law. See id. (citation omitted).
countrey . . . .
proprietors of the Town of Wells and received the grant in that capacity.
to the land described to the Town of Wells."
obtained both "the right of soil" as well as jurisdiction, see Montgomery v.
because the proprietors did not convey any interest to the Town by deed.
684 A.2d 1306 (Me. 1996).
to the enabling statute or by user." Id. at 1313 (emphasis added).
bald and conclusory statement by its expert.
of the town's life, both political and economic.
Wheelright, Henry Boade and Edward Rishworth of Wells. See Edward E.
thought it best not to permit them to run to waste."  Id.
transfer title to the Town.
conveyed into them. See Calthorpe v. Abrahamson, 441 A.2d 284, 287 (Me.
1982). Construction of the language of a deed, however, is a question of law.
Tallwood Land & Dev. Co. v. Botka, 352 A.2d 753, 755 (Me. 1976).
the place of beginning, containing forty acres more or less . .
Wheelwright, Henry Boade, and Edward Rishworth to Ezekial Knights.
wee vsed to set our hay . . .
to Lydia Storer aboves . . . .
"[t]ogether with all the salt marsh and Thatch banks Joyning thereto . . .
four sons acquired 1/4 interests in her property.
the reputed boundaries thereof . . . .
Joseph Littlefield, who conveyed it to George Chaney.
distances and quantity." Snyder v. Haagen, 679 A.2d 510, 513 (Me. 1996).
the findings below when they are supported by competent evidence.'"  S.D.
recognition of or subordination to [the] record title owner.'"  Striefel v.
Town's claim of right to the fee.
was a defective title, the court need not have found that was the reason.
its claim of right on this basis.
adverse possession, it cannot be divested of that right.  See S.D. Warren Co.
legal title cannot be lost by abandonment.").
determination, we defer to the trial court's determination and find no error.
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