Opinion

Winslow v. Reed

  • 89 Me. 67
  • 35 A. 1017
  • 1896 Me. LEXIS 71
Court
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Filed
Mar 25, 1896
Status
Published
Author
Walton
On the bench
Foster, Haskell, House, Peters, Walton, White, Wiswell
Cited by
2 cases
Authority
More cited than 63.4%

The opinion

Walton, J.

Exceptions to a compulsory nonsuit. The presiding justice seems to have assumed that when land is bounded on a private way, the same rule applies as when land is bounded on a highway, and that land so bounded extends to the center of the way. This was erroneous.

It is undoubtedly true that when land is bounded on a highway, it extends to the center of the way; but it is equally well settled in this State, whatever the rule may be elsewhere, that when land is bounded on a private way, it extends only to the side line of the way. Bangor House v. Brown, 33 Maine, 309; Ames v. Hilton, 70 Maine, 36.

Hxeeptions sustained.

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