Carr v. Dooley

The first count in the plaintiff’s declaration is upon the covenant against incumbrances contained in the defendant’s deed to him. It alleges that the plaintiff has been obliged to pay an assessment for a sewer, which was a lien on the estate when the deed was made. The deed is dated June 8, 1870. The sewer was constructed under the provisions of the St. of 1869, c. 111, in pursuance of a resolution of the mayor and aider-men passed in May previous, directing “ that a common sewer be laid in Cedar Street, from the Crosby Street sewer to Keene Street; the size of the sewer to be twelve inches…