Brown v. Town of Sudbury

Tbis is a petition under Revised Laws, Chapter 182, Section 11, to determine the validity of an alleged reservation in a grant of a portion of the Lowance meadows in Sudbury by the Proprietors of the Common and Undivided Lands in Sudbury to one Pitts, dated December 6, 1715, in the following language: “ Only the proprietors reserve forever convenient driftways to the above said Lowance meadows and gravel to mend the mill dam and the highways, as there shall be occasion.”

The petitioner claims that the title to the Lowance meadows at the date of the above grant was in the Proprietors of Common…