Regan v. Boston Gas Light Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill let equity, filed April 24, 1883, by the owner of the lots marked 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, on a plan, a sketch of which is shown in the margin,* which lots are situated at Commercial Point, so called, in that part of Boston formerly Dorchester, to restrain the defendant from obstructing certain of the streets shown on said plan, over which the plaintiff claimed a right of way as appurtenant to his five lots.
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Bill let equity, filed April 24, 1883, by the owner of the lots marked 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, on a plan, a sketch of which is shown in the margin,* which lots are situated at Commercial Point, so called, in that part of Boston formerly Dorchester, to restrain the defendant from obstructing certain of the streets shown on said plan, over which the plaintiff claimed a right of way as appurtenant to his five lots. The defendant admitted the intended obstruction of Commercial Street and Union Street, to the eastward of Pleasant Street; of Washington Street, Plymouth Street, and South Street, to the…
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, C. J.
The plaintiff contends that he has a right of way over the streets shown on the plan, as appurtenant to the lots of land owned by him.
His title to the first four lots is derived from John Preston, who, by his deed dated December 2, 1874, mortgaged certain *41premises, which include the first three lots, to Clement Willis, describing the land as “ commencing at northwesterly corner of lot 17 on plan of Moseley,” and bounded by land of Berry and Wheeler, and by Commercial Street and Union Street. Willis, having foreclosed his mortgage, conveyed the first three lots to the plaintiff by deed dated…
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