Boston Water Power Co. v. Hanlon
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Writ of entry to recover a parcel of land in Brookline. Plea, nnl disseisin. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Colburn, J., the jury returned a verdict for the tenant; and the demandant alleged exceptions to the exclusion of certain evidence, the nature of which appears in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtDevens, J.
The finding of the judge who presided at the trial, that the plottings for plans and the field notes of Mather Withington, a surveyor long since deceased, did not appear to have been made by the authority or procurement of the grantors of either party to this action, cannot be here reviewed. Walker v. Curtis, 116 Mass. 98. They did not come from the custody of either party, but from that of the administratrix of Withington. The demandant contends that they were admissible for the purpose of showing the true location of a creek which was the boundary line of the mill corporation under whom the…
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