Stowell v. Buswell
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Writ of entry, dated March 8, 1881, to recover a parcel of land in Haverhill. Plea, nul disseisin. The writ described the land as bounded southerly by lot No. 13, and land now or late of Ira G-. Bean, fifty-four feet six inches; easterly, twenty-one feet, by land now or late of the heirs of Nehemiah Emerson; northerly, by land now or late of Nathaniel K. Johnson, fifty-four feet six inches, and westerly, by land of Kendall Flint, twenty-one feet, being the southerly part of…
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Writ of entry, dated March 8, 1881, to recover a parcel of land in Haverhill. Plea, nul disseisin. The writ described the land as bounded southerly by lot No. 13, and land now or late of Ira G-. Bean, fifty-four feet six inches; easterly, twenty-one feet, by land now or late of the heirs of Nehemiah Emerson; northerly, by land now or late of Nathaniel K. Johnson, fifty-four feet six inches, and westerly, by land of Kendall Flint, twenty-one feet, being the southerly part of lot conveyed by E. C. Sargent to said Bean. Trial in the Superior Court, before Staples, J., who allowed a bill of…
1Opinion of the CourtW. Allen, J.
The court correctly ruled that the demand-ant’s deed to Carlton included the demanded premises, and properly excluded the paroi evidence offered to affect its construction. The boundaries given in the deed are “measuring fifty-four and one third feet on Orchard Street, and the west line running one hundred feet and the east line one hundred and five feet southerly, and both at right angles to Orchard Street.” The land is also mentioned as “ lot No. 27,” and there are also three other separate descriptions by references to former deeds. All these descriptions plainly include the demanded *346premis…
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