Barrett v. Murphy
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Writ of entry to recover a parcel of land on Furnace Street, in North Adams, being that marked by the letters A, B, C, and D, on the plan printed in the margin.* Plea, nul disseisin.
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Writ of entry to recover a parcel of land on Furnace Street, in North Adams, being that marked by the letters A, B, C, and D, on the plan printed in the margin.* Plea, nul disseisin. Trial in the Superior Court, before Rockwell, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions, in substance as follows: It appeared that Benjamin F. Robinson had conveyed nine adjoining lots situated on the west side of Furnace Street to different persons, and, among others, to the demandants, and to the tenant’s grantors. The demandants put in evidence all the deeds of these nine lots, in chronological order, against the…
1Opinion of the Court
Deveíts, J.
It was for the demandants to establish their title to the locus in .dispute. Prior to the deed of Robinson to Harrington of the lot which the demandants now hold, Robinson had made a bond for a deed of the lot north of it to one Bailey. In fact, no deed was ever made by Robinson to Bailey, but in the description which Robinson gives of the tract sold to Harrington he defines it as “ commencing at the southeast corner of land I sold Bailey.” It is not controverted by either party that this refers to the tract, which Robinson had agreed to convey, but had not actually conveyed, to…
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