Barnes v. Lynch
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition for partition of a parcel of land in Lawrence. The case was submitted to the Superior Court, and, after judgment for the respondents, to this court, on appeal, on agreed facts, which appear in the opinion. The case was argued at the bar in November, 1889, and afterwards was submitted on the briefs to all the judges, except Morton, C. J.
1Opinion of the CourtDevens, J.
Benjamin Gf. Boardman, senior, died seised of four distinct parcels of land in Lawrence, which descended to his four children. Soon after his death Benjamin G. Board-man, junior, one of his sons, erroneously claiming title in severalty to all these parcels, conveyed three of them to different persons. The title thus claimed by Benjamin G. Boardman, junior, was founded upon a purchase of these four parcels at a tax sale, which sale has been declared void by a recent decision of this court. Barnes v. Boardman, 149 Mass. 106. The grantee of one of the parcels thus conveyed by Benjamin G.…
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