Reed v. Mayo
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, filed in the Land Court on February 13, 1913, for the registration of the title to certain land in Wellesley, described in the petition as bounded "easterly by the westerly end of a town highway.” The respondent, who owned land on both sides of the alleged town highway, denied that it was a town highway and that the petitioner had any rights of way appurtenant to his land.
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Petition, filed in the Land Court on February 13, 1913, for the registration of the title to certain land in Wellesley, described in the petition as bounded "easterly by the westerly end of a town highway.” The respondent, who owned land on both sides of the alleged town highway, denied that it was a town highway and that the petitioner had any rights of way appurtenant to his land. The case was heard by Dams, J. The material portions of the evidence at the hearing before him are described in the opinion. He found that the laying out of the way in question by the town in 1852 was legal and…
1Opinion of the CourtDe Courcy, J.
A portion of the easterly line of the petitioner’s tract is described as bounded "by the western end of a town highway leading to Weston Road.” The judge of the Land Court, on the facts found by him, ruled that the way referred to (known as Mayo Road) was a town road, and ordered a decree accordingly.
*567This way had its beginning more than sixty years ago, when it appears that one James Roy, the respondent’s predecessor in title, agreed to give the land therefor, to fence it and to make the road to the acceptance of the selectmen, for $150. Certain proceedings on the subject of laying out the…
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