Hathaway v. Evans
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort in the nature of trespass quare clausum. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtDevens, J.
The parties to this action were owners of adjoining lards, and the question was one of boundary, the locus in dispute being a strip about ninety rods in length and three or four rods in width lying between their admitted estates. The plaintiff derived title to his close under a deed from Guilford Hathaway, administrator, to Philip Hathaway, and he put in evidence this deed, and at the trial two or three witnesses for the plaintiff were cross-examined respecting the existence of a plan of the premises thereby conveyed, and also as to whether the said plan showed a double line on the northerly…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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