Overly v. Treasurer & Receiver General

The facts on which the three counts of the plaintiff’s declaration are based are alleged to be these: On November 29,1939, Henry 0. Everett brought a petition in the Land Court for registration of a tract of land in Nantucket, which included the lot in controversy. On May 18, 1949, the Land Court issued a decree registering title to the tract. The decree plan, numbered 17368-A, included, amongst others, as lot A-12, a parcel bounded: “Southwesterly by the Atlantic Ocean; Northwesterly by Proprietors’ Boad, nine hundred (900) feet more or less; Northerly or Northeasterly by Lot 6A, six hundred…