Supreme Judicial Court of Maine July 1, 1858 (Walker v. Lincoln)

The opinion of the Court was drawn up by

Tenney, C. J.,

The lot, on which the trespass is alleged to have been committed, is the one which was reserved “ for the benefit of public education in general,” in township No. 14, of the lottery townships, in the east division of the county of Washington, in the Act of Nov. 9, 1786, of the General Court of Massachusetts.