Cunningham v. Bright
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, filed in the Land Court on November 28, 1910, and amended on April 5, 1915, by the trustee under an agreement dated January 23, 1903, creating a trust called the Marblehead Associates, praying for an order cancelling the memoranda of an attachment and of a sheriff’s deed upon the certificate of title issued by the Land Court to Charles D. Wainwright as trustee of the Marblehead Associates and for the issuing to the petitioner of a new certificate of such title free…
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Petition, filed in the Land Court on November 28, 1910, and amended on April 5, 1915, by the trustee under an agreement dated January 23, 1903, creating a trust called the Marblehead Associates, praying for an order cancelling the memoranda of an attachment and of a sheriff’s deed upon the certificate of title issued by the Land Court to Charles D. Wainwright as trustee of the Marblehead Associates and for the issuing to the petitioner of a new certificate of such title free from incumbrances. The case was heard by Dams, J. The evidence is described in the opinion. The petitioner asked the…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
This is a petition in the Land Court by the present trustee, of the Marblehead Associates to expunge from the certificate of title issued in the name of Charles D. Wainwright, as former trustee of the same associates, an attachment and sheriff’s deed to the respondent. The’pertinent facts are that Wainwright bargained for the purchase of a tract of land in Marblehead to be developed for dwelling house purposes. He paid a part of the purchase. price in cash and a straw man at his request gave a mortgage for the balance. He caused an agreement and declaration of trust, similar to that in…
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