Ingalls v. Newhall
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Writ oe ENTRY, dated August 11, 1883, to recover a parcel of land in Lynn, bounded northerly by the southerly line of Humphrey Street, about three hundred and forty-two feet, and southerly by the sea.
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Writ oe ENTRY, dated August 11, 1883, to recover a parcel of land in Lynn, bounded northerly by the southerly line of Humphrey Street, about three hundred and forty-two feet, and southerly by the sea. Plea, nul disseisin, with a specification of defence that the tenant disclaimed title to four undivided fifths of the demanded premises, excepting two parcels, the first being a parcel “on which stands a wooden frame for boats,” about eighteen and a half feet long and eleven feet wide; and the second, “ a parcel of land with the building and pump and platform thereon, .... a portion of which…
1Opinion of the CourtDevens, J.
John Ingalls, whose will was admitted to probate in 1848, died seised of two tracts of land, one on the northerly and the other on the southerly side of Humphrey Street. He devised the same, with his other real estate, to his five sons. On June 14, 1849, the tract on the northerly side was divided by mutual deeds into four parts, one each to three of the sons of John Ingalls, namely, Ephraim, Joseph, and Otis Ingalls, and one to the heirs of his son Benjamin, who died after his father. The fifth son, Jonathan B., while he participated in this division, received no part of the land thus…
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