REED v. PROPRIETORS OF LOCKS AND CANALS


49 U.S. 274 (1850)

8 How. 274

JONATHAN M. REED, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR, v. THE PROPRIETORS OF LOCKS AND CANALS ON MERRIMAC RIVER, DEFENDANTS.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

It was argued by Mr. Parker and Mr. Jones, for the plaintiff in error, and Mr. Robinson and Mr. Webster, for the tenants.


Mr. Justice GRIER delivered the opinion of the court.

The plaintiff in error was demandant below in a writ of entry, in which he claimed about eight acres of land in the city of Lowell.

The demandant claimed under Benjamin Melvin, who, it is admitted, was seized of the land in dispute, as part of a larger tract, in 1782. One undivided moiety of this tract Melvin held in right of his wife, and the other in his own right...

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