Supreme Judicial Court of Maine March 2, 1877 (Woodcock v. City of Calais)

Virgin, J.

In 1871, the city government of Calais passed an order: “That the street commissioners be directed forthwith to cause all fences now on the public streets to be removed.”

In the summer of 1875, the street commissioner caused a surveyor to run the line between the plaintiff’s land and the street.