Brownell v. Briggs
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Writ oe entry, dated February 12,1897, to recover a parcel of land in Swansea. Plea, nul disseisin. Trial in the Superior Court, without a jury, before Hammond, J., who found for the demandant; and the tenant alleged exceptions, which, Hammond, J., having become a justice of this court, were allowed by Dewey, J. The facts appear in the opinion. The case was argued at the bar in October, 1898, and after-wards was submitted on briefs to all the justices, except Field, 0. J.
1Opinion of the CourtBarker, J.
The demandant and her late husband were married in 1869, and separated in 1883, the separation continu*530ing until his death in 1896. They had no children, and he died intestate and without issue. In 1893, for no pecuniary consideration, he conveyed the demanded premises, his only real estate, and of the value of less than five thousand dollars, to the tenant, his grand-niece. The deed was not recorded until after his death, and it purported to reserve to the grantor the use of the land for his life, with power to sell or mortgage, and to dispose of the proceeds as he should see fit. It was also…
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