Name/Title
William V. Alden v. Samuel D. Carleton, et al.Entry/Object ID
WHC 2018.26.15Scope and Content
LAWSUIT AND ORDER TO APPEAR WILLIAM G. ALDEN VS. CAMDEN GRIST MILL ET. ALS, OCTOBER 6, 1887
Transcription of the original document that was given to Walsh History Center of Camden Public Library by William B. Merrill, August 2018.
Wm G. Alden Esq
vs
Camden Grist Mill Co.
et als
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Knox ss
To the Supreme Judicial Court
William g Alden of Camden county of Knox and state of Maine Complaint against Samuel D. Carleton, Philander J. Carleton, Benj C Adams & Joshua Adams copts under the name of Camden Grist Mill Co. Knox Woolen Company a cooperation established by law Henry L Alden and John D Knowlton and Thresa Thorndike and Wm Thorndike heirs of Geo S Thorndike late of Camden deceased, all of said Camden and says:
That he ownes and for more than five years last past has owned and possessed one eighth (1/8) of the Mollineux Mill privilege and dam at the outlet of Megunticook Pond a tenant in common and undivided with said Camden Grist Mill Co. owning & possessing one quarter (1/4) thereof said Knox Woolen Company owning & possessing one eighth (1/8) thereof, said Henry L Alden owning and possessing one eighth (1/8) thereof and said John D
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Knowlton owning and possessing one quarter (1/4) thereof and the estate of Geo L Thorndike one eighth (1/8) and as tenants in common using & occupying the whole of said dam & privilege:
That said dam is for the purpose of holding back and storing the waters of said Megunticook Pond and its tributaries as a reservoir for the use of the several mills and factories owned and operated respectively by your orator and the said defendants below said dam on Megunticook Stream so called. And for the continued operating of said mills and factories in all seasons of the year said dam is necessary to store the water of said Pond as aforesaid. And your orator says said defendants were interested with himself to keep said dam in repair so that the same should be adequate and sufficient to hold back the water of said pond as aforesaid. And he says that in Jany AD 1883 said dam became defective and out of repair and with the knowledge and consent of the defendants he repaired the same
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at an expense to himself of one hundred and twenty-eight dollars & ninety two cents ($128.92) and in Oct 1885 said dam again became defective and out of repair and with the knowledge and consent of the defendants he repaired the same at an expense to himself of thirteen dollars and fifty-cents ($13.50) and in the Fall of 1886 your orator and the defendants for the purpose of propelling their said mills and factories deepened the channel above said dam through and below it making it necessary to remove the dam then exhisting and reconstructing it. And your orator with the knowledge and consent of the defendants removed said old dam and reconstructed it, stoned up the old race way, built a temporary dam above to keep back the water while the work of excavating said channel and reconstructing said dam was being done and also did necessary excavating & deepening of said channel at the outlet of said pond to make the said excavations and deepening of said channel done by your orator
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and said defendants useful. All to the expense of your orator of five hundred and ninty-six dollars & eighty-cents ($596.80) all of which sums have been paid by your orator and an account presented to the defendants with the vouchers therefore and settlement demanded of them. And your orator says that upon a just and fair settlement there will be found due him from the defendants the sum of six hundred & forty-seven dollars & twenty two cents ($647.22) which he claims to recover by this bill and which the defendants neglect to pay or any just past thereof.
Wherefore your orator prays right and equity in the premises and that the defendants in their proper and respective proportions may be required to pay unto your orator the sums found to be due to him and that your orator may have such further and other relief in the premises as the nature of his case may require and to your Honors shall seem meet. And may it please your Honors to grant unto our orator the most
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gracious writ of Subpoena of the state of Maine to be directed to the said Camden Grist Mill Company Knox Woolen Company Henry L Alden & Knowlton Bros and Thresa Thorndike & Wm Thorndike heirs of said Geo S Thorndike late of said Camden, deceased, thereby commanding their and everyone of them at a certain day and under a certain pain therein to be specified personally to be and appear before your Honors in the Honorable Court and then and there to answer all and singular the premises and to stand to & perform and abide such order and decree therein as to your Honors shall seem Meet
Oct 6th AD 1887
W G Alden
J H Montgomery Soliciter
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State of Maine
Knox ss. To Samuel D. Carleton, Philander J. Carleton, Benjamin C. Adams & Joshua Adams, copts. under the name of Camden Grist Mill Co. Knox Woolen Company a corporation established by law, Henry S. Alden, John D. Knowlton and Theresa Thorndike and Wm Thorndike heirs of George S. Thorndike late of said Camden deceased, all of said Camden.
L.S. Greeting
We command you that you appear before our Supreme Judicial Court next to be holden at Rockland within and for the county of Knox on the second Tuesday of December next then and there to answer to a bill of complaint exhibited against you by William G. Alden of said Camden, and to do and receive what our said court shall then and there consider in that behalf.
And we further command you and each of you to file with the Clerk of said Court within thirty days after the said second Tuesday of December your demurrer plea or answer to said bill.
Hereof fail not under the pains and penalties of the law in that behalf provided.
Witness, John A. Peters, Chief Justice of our said Court, this seventh day of November A. D. 1887. L. F. Starrett Clerk
A true copy of the bill and subpoena
Attest L. F. Starrett Clerk
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Wm Thorndike
Mollineau
property
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Transcribed 24 September 2018 by Jane M. MackayCollection
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WHC 2018.26Source or Donor
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Notes: LAWSUIT AND ORDER TO APPEAR WILLIAM G. ALDEN VS. CAMDEN GRIST MILL ET. ALS, OCTOBER 6, 1887
Transcription of the original document that was given to Walsh History Center of Camden Public Library by William B. Merrill, August 2018.
Wm G. Alden Esq
vs
Camden Grist Mill Co.
et als
[End of cover]
Knox ss
To the Supreme Judicial Court
William g Alden of Camden county of Knox and state of Maine Complaint against Samuel D. Carleton, Philander J. Carleton, Benj C Adams & Joshua Adams copts under the name of Camden Grist Mill Co. Knox Woolen Company a cooperation established by law Henry L Alden and John D Knowlton and Thresa Thorndike and Wm Thorndike heirs of Geo S Thorndike late of Camden deceased, all of said Camden and says:
That he ownes and for more than five years last past has owned and possessed one eighth (1/8) of the Mollineux Mill privilege and dam at the outlet of Megunticook Pond a tenant in common and undivided with said Camden Grist Mill Co. owning & possessing one quarter (1/4) thereof said Knox Woolen Company owning & possessing one eighth (1/8) thereof, said Henry L Alden owning and possessing one eighth (1/8) thereof and said John D
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Knowlton owning and possessing one quarter (1/4) thereof and the estate of Geo L Thorndike one eighth (1/8) and as tenants in common using & occupying the whole of said dam & privilege:
That said dam is for the purpose of holding back and storing the waters of said Megunticook Pond and its tributaries as a reservoir for the use of the several mills and factories owned and operated respectively by your orator and the said defendants below said dam on Megunticook Stream so called. And for the continued operating of said mills and factories in all seasons of the year said dam is necessary to store the water of said Pond as aforesaid. And your orator says said defendants were interested with himself to keep said dam in repair so that the same should be adequate and sufficient to hold back the water of said pond as aforesaid. And he says that in Jany AD 1883 said dam became defective and out of repair and with the knowledge and consent of the defendants he repaired the same
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at an expense to himself of one hundred and twenty-eight dollars & ninety two cents ($128.92) and in Oct 1885 said dam again became defective and out of repair and with the knowledge and consent of the defendants he repaired the same at an expense to himself of thirteen dollars and fifty-cents ($13.50) and in the Fall of 1886 your orator and the defendants for the purpose of propelling their said mills and factories deepened the channel above said dam through and below it making it necessary to remove the dam then exhisting and reconstructing it. And your orator with the knowledge and consent of the defendants removed said old dam and reconstructed it, stoned up the old race way, built a temporary dam above to keep back the water while the work of excavating said channel and reconstructing said dam was being done and also did necessary excavating & deepening of said channel at the outlet of said pond to make the said excavations and deepening of said channel done by your orator
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and said defendants useful. All to the expense of your orator of five hundred and ninty-six dollars & eighty-cents ($596.80) all of which sums have been paid by your orator and an account presented to the defendants with the vouchers therefore and settlement demanded of them. And your orator says that upon a just and fair settlement there will be found due him from the defendants the sum of six hundred & forty-seven dollars & twenty two cents ($647.22) which he claims to recover by this bill and which the defendants neglect to pay or any just past thereof.
Wherefore your orator prays right and equity in the premises and that the defendants in their proper and respective proportions may be required to pay unto your orator the sums found to be due to him and that your orator may have such further and other relief in the premises as the nature of his case may require and to your Honors shall seem meet. And may it please your Honors to grant unto our orator the most
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gracious writ of Subpoena of the state of Maine to be directed to the said Camden Grist Mill Company Knox Woolen Company Henry L Alden & Knowlton Bros and Thresa Thorndike & Wm Thorndike heirs of said Geo S Thorndike late of said Camden, deceased, thereby commanding their and everyone of them at a certain day and under a certain pain therein to be specified personally to be and appear before your Honors in the Honorable Court and then and there to answer all and singular the premises and to stand to & perform and abide such order and decree therein as to your Honors shall seem Meet
Oct 6th AD 1887
W G Alden
J H Montgomery Soliciter
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State of Maine
Knox ss. To Samuel D. Carleton, Philander J. Carleton, Benjamin C. Adams & Joshua Adams, copts. under the name of Camden Grist Mill Co. Knox Woolen Company a corporation established by law, Henry S. Alden, John D. Knowlton and Theresa Thorndike and Wm Thorndike heirs of George S. Thorndike late of said Camden deceased, all of said Camden.
L.S. Greeting
We command you that you appear before our Supreme Judicial Court next to be holden at Rockland within and for the county of Knox on the second Tuesday of December next then and there to answer to a bill of complaint exhibited against you by William G. Alden of said Camden, and to do and receive what our said court shall then and there consider in that behalf.
And we further command you and each of you to file with the Clerk of said Court within thirty days after the said second Tuesday of December your demurrer plea or answer to said bill.
Hereof fail not under the pains and penalties of the law in that behalf provided.
Witness, John A. Peters, Chief Justice of our said Court, this seventh day of November A. D. 1887. L. F. Starrett Clerk
A true copy of the bill and subpoena
Attest L. F. Starrett Clerk
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Wm Thorndike
Mollineau
property
[End of back cover]
Transcribed 24 September 2018 by Jane M. Mackay
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