Arnold v. Reed
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, dated June, 1893, under St. 1893, c. 340, to compel the respondents to bring an action to try their alleged title to several parcels of land in Abington. Trial before Allen, J., who declined to grant the prayer of the petition, and reported the case for the consideration of the full court. The material facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtField, C. J.
The question in this case is whether the petitioners allege and show a record title to the real property described in the petition, within the meaning of these words in St. 1893, c. 340. The deeds of Charles Stetson to the petitioners Nathaniel W. Arnold and Justin Meserve, and to Leonard Arnold, who has deceased and whose heirs join in the petition, purport to be given by said Stetson as administrator of the estate of Josiah Shaw, deceased, late of Abington in the county of Plymouth, under an order of the Probate Court for the County of Plymouth, whereby he was licensed and empowered to sell…
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