Packard v. First Congregational Parish

This is a petition for the registration of a parcel of land in the town of Duxbury. The Land Court having found for the petitioner and ordered a decree, the case is here on the respondent’s exceptions to the refusal of its requests for rulings, and to the rulings made.

The petitioner claims under deeds given to him by the town of Duxbury dated November 17,1923, which were duly recorded, and he has since been in possession of the premises and built a house thereon. If the town owned the land, the vote at the annual town meeting held March 5, 1900, that “the Selectmen be authorized to sell any…