Bailey v. Look’s Empirical Analysis

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7 state decisions

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1. “BEGINNING at an iron pipe driven into the ground on the Easterly side of said Ocean Avenue at a point which is 59 feet Southerly of the Southwesterly corner of a parcel of land conveyed to Enid G. Ripley to Lenabel C. Fales ... thence Southerly by said Ocean Avenue 105 feet to an iron pipe driven into the ground at the Northwesterly corner of land to Elsie M. Howe; thence Easterly by said Howe land on a line which is at right angles with the last described line, (100.18) one hundred and eighteen hundredths feet to an iron pipe driven into the ground... . ALSO, one other certain lot or parcel of land situated on the Easterly side of said Ocean Avenue, adjoining Northerly the above described parcel and bounded and described as follows: BEGINNING at an iron pipe driven into the ground on the Easterly side of said Ocean Avenue at the Southwesterly corner of a ten (10) foot strip of land this date conveyed by these Grantors to Lena-bel C. Fales and Dean A. Fales, Jr. ... thence Southerly by said Ocean Avenue forty-nine (49) feet to the Northwesterly corner of the parcel of land above described .... Both of the above parcels are part of the same premises conveyed to these Grantors by Libania Barbara MacMaster et al, Executor of the last Will and Testament of George MacLachlan MacMaster late of said Kennebunkport deceased testate by their deed dated July 1,1963 ....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Howe v. Natale