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46 Me. 225

Fisk v. Keene

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine

Decided July 1, 1858

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · decided 1858-07-01

Exceptions from the ruling at Nisi Prius of May, J., allowing costs for petitioner, in a proceeding for partition of real estate, after judgment for partition had been entered. At October term, 1852, the respondents filed their plea of sole seizin. The case was withdrawn from the jury and submitted to the full Court, upon report of the presiding Judge. Judgment for partition, as prayed for, was ordered by the Court in December, 1853.

Decided 1858-07-01

¶1The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Rice, J.

¶2This is a question of costs, merely. The respondents appeared in Court and answered to the petition, pleading sole seizin of the premises sought to be parted. This question was settled by the full Court, on a report of the evidence, against the respondents; that is, it was deter*226mined that the respondents were not sole seized, but that the petitioner was entitled to partition. After the adjudication of the Court was duly promulgated, the case finds that the respondents no longer resisted the petitioner, but he proceeded and had commissioners appointed, who submitted their report, and, at such time as he chose to move, that report was accepted by the Court.

¶3These facts bring the case within the rule of Ham v. Ham, 43 Maine, 285. By that rule, he is entitled to his costs until the interlocutory judgment for partition was entered, but not afterwards. To this extent the judgment of the Court below must be corrected.

Tenney, C. J., and Appleton, Cutting, May, and Goodenow, J. J., concurred.
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