Bonner v. Proprietors of the Kennebeck Purchase

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Bonner v. Proprietors of the Kennebeck Purchase

7 Mass. 475

CourtMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

DecidedJune 15, 1811

StatusPublished

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Bonner v. Proprietors of the Kennebeck Purchase, 7 Mass. 475 (Mass. 1811).

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It appearing in this case that the share in the Kennebeck pur chase, which the petitioners claimed to have set off to them in severalty, had been sold more than forty years since, for non-payment of an assessment voted by the proprietors, and that the purchasers, under the sale, had been ever since in possession; the Court observed that this process lies only for persons actually seised, and the petitioners became nonsuit.

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It appearing in this case that the share in the Kennebeck pur chase, which the petitioners claimed to have set off to them in severalty, had been sold more than forty years since, for non-payment of an assessment voted by the proprietors, and that the purchasers, under the sale, had been ever since in possession; the Court observed that this process lies only for persons actually seised, and the petitioners became nonsuit.

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