Crabtree v. Miller
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed April 28,1903, by the owner of certain real estate on Washington Street in Boston, comprising a building formerly occupied as a part of a hotel called the Hotel Reynolds, a covered or arched way called Gibbons Court and a building known as the Park Theatre, to enjoin the defendant, who was the assignee of the lease of the plaintiff’s hotel property from claiming an exclusive right in Gibbons Court or the right to use it for mercantile purposes and to…
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Bill in equity, filed April 28,1903, by the owner of certain real estate on Washington Street in Boston, comprising a building formerly occupied as a part of a hotel called the Hotel Reynolds, a covered or arched way called Gibbons Court and a building known as the Park Theatre, to enjoin the defendant, who was the assignee of the lease of the plaintiff’s hotel property from claiming an exclusive right in Gibbons Court or the right to use it for mercantile purposes and to compel him to leave the gate at the entrance of that court unlocked and open. The case came on to be heard before Braley,…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
On March 16,1899, the plaintiff was the • owner in fee of adjacent lots of land on Washington Street in Boston. These lots were occupied by buildings used as a hotel, by the Park Theatre, and by a covered passageway called Gibbons Court. Gibbons Court runs westerly from Washington Street about eighty feet, between the hotel buildings on the south and the Park Theatre on the north. It is about ten feet wide at its easterly end next Washington Street, and about fourteen feet wide at its westerly end. At the entrance from Washington Street the sidewalk is discontinued upon both sides, to permit…
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