Marsh v. French

This is an appeal from a decree of the judge of the Probate Court, on a petition for partition, under the Pub. Sts. c. 178, §§ 48 if seq., of the real estate of the late Charles French, deceased, ordering commissioners to make sale of all the said real estate, consisting of several parcels, except one specified parcel. This decree was modified by a single justice of this court by excluding from the operation thereof a parcel of land known as the homestead lot, situated on the corner of Plymouth Street and Franklin Street in Holbrook.

It appeared that this lot was formerly owned by one Zenas…