Matthews v. Dixey
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed January 11, 1888, to prevent the defendant from using a brick wall, standing partly on her land and partly on that of the plaintiff, in erecting a proposed building on her land, and from so extending such wall as to displace a division fence. The case was heard by Field, J., who ordered the bill to be dismissed; and the plaintiff appealed to the full court. The material facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtW. Allen, J.
The parties own adjoining lots on the north side of Beacon Street, in Boston. Both parties claim under the Boston and Roxbury Mill Corporation, which formerly owned the land extending’ northerly from Beacon Street to the harbor commissioners’ line, and westerly from Hereford Street to West Chester Park. On March 15, 1886, the corporation conveyed to William Simes a parcel of this land measuring seventy-seven feet on Beacon Street, and on April 24, 1886, it conveyed to Nathan Matthews another parcel forty-eight feet in width, lying westerly of and adjoining the land conveyed to Simes. Each *596deed…
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