Johnson v. McMahon

The plaintiffs appeal from a decree entered in the Land Court dismissing their bill in equity. A parcel of land in the town of Bourne owned by the plaintiffs had been sold by tax deed to the defendant McMahon. By their bill the plaintiffs sought to invalidate certain acts done and instruments executed by the treasurer of the defendant town of Bourne and the defendant Commissioner of Corporations and Taxation for the Commonwealth which preceded and resulted in the sale.

The instant proceedings stem from an order entered by the Land Court in another case wherein McMahon under G. L. c. 60, § 80B,…