# Winslow v. Reed

> Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · March 25, 1896 · 89 Me. 67

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/4935827

## Case

- **Full name:** James A. Winslow v. Isaac B. Reed
- **Court:** Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
- **Decided:** March 25, 1896
- **Citations:** 89 Me. 67; 35 A. 1017; 1896 Me. LEXIS 71
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Opinion of the court by Walton
- **Judges:** Foster, Haskell, House, Peters, Walton, White, Wiswell
- **Cited by:** 2 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

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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