Hodgkins v. Farrington
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed March 19, 1888, by the plaintiffs, as the • owners of an estate on Hanover Street in Boston, against Isaac Farrington, the owner of an adjoining estate, the Suffolk Savings Bank for Seamen and Others, the mortgagee of such estate, and the administrator of James W. Johnson, the lessee of a large portion thereof, for the removal of that part of a building belonging to the defendant Farrington which stood upon the estate of the plaintiffs, and for damages.
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Bill in equity, filed March 19, 1888, by the plaintiffs, as the • owners of an estate on Hanover Street in Boston, against Isaac Farrington, the owner of an adjoining estate, the Suffolk Savings Bank for Seamen and Others, the mortgagee of such estate, and the administrator of James W. Johnson, the lessee of a large portion thereof, for the removal of that part of a building belonging to the defendant Farrington which stood upon the estate of the plaintiffs, and for damages. The case was heard by Field, J., who reserved it for the consideration of the full court. The material facts appear in…
1Opinion of the CourtDevens, J.
In 1841 the premises of the plaintiffs were owned by Robert Burr, and those of the defendant Farrington by Noah Blanchard, a house standing on the front part of each lot with a yard in the rear. On August 1 of that year, the boundary line between their respective lots was established by a straight line that ran “ through the centre of the brick wall separating the two houses, and by the northeasterly side of a wall separating the two yards.” The brick garden wall which separated the two yards, was fifty-four feet in length and eight inches thick, with the exception of a twelve-foot section…
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