Justice v. Soderlund
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on November 18, 1915, alleging that the plaintiff is the owner of a parcel of land in Newton designated as Lot 18 on a certain plan, and praying that the defendants be enjoined from interfering with the plaintiff’s possession, use and enjoyment of such parcel of land and that the defendants Weed and Robinson be ordered to execute a good and sufficient deed of said Lot 18 to the plaintiff.
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Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on November 18, 1915, alleging that the plaintiff is the owner of a parcel of land in Newton designated as Lot 18 on a certain plan, and praying that the defendants be enjoined from interfering with the plaintiff’s possession, use and enjoyment of such parcel of land and that the defendants Weed and Robinson be ordered to execute a good and sufficient deed of said Lot 18 to the plaintiff. In the Superior Court the case was heard by McLaughlin, J. He made a memorandum of findings including the facts that are stated in the opinion: The memorandum…
1Opinion of the CourtCarroll, J.
Maria M. Gay, who died June 5, 1911, in the sixteenth clause of her will directed her executors to “sell such portion of my estate as may be necessary to pay off the mortgage now thereon, and then to sell such portion as may be necessary to pay the legacies herein made,” and for this purpose they were authorized “to sell at their discretion the whole or any part of the said estate.” The legacies amounted to $19,500. “The mortgages referred to in the will were somewhere about $5,500 or $6,000.” Her personal estate was inventoried at $8,193.47. The debts, including funeral expenses and taxes,…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Mansfield v. WilesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1915
- Ladd v. ChaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1892
- McLaughlin v. GreeneMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1908
- Bremer v. HadleyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1907
- Wainwright v. SawyerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1889
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- Conners v. City of LowellMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1923
- Onanian v. LeggatMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1974
- Altobelli v. MontesiMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1938
- Reilly v. WhitingMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1955
- Bryant v. LombardiMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1928
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