Legal Opinion

Bailey v. Agawam National Bank

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided January 2, 1906PublishedCited by 32 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtLobring, J.

[After the foregoing statement of the case.] 1. As matter of construction of the clause here in question, it was (in our opinion) the intention of the parties to it that the rights in the passageway ten feet wide, there provided for, should be rights in perpetuity, and for the benefit of the two adjoining lots of land. If this clause is to operate in favor of the grantor *23Moore by way of reservation or exception, this intention fails, so far as half the passageway, to wit, lot G B C H is concerned, for lack of the word “ heirs.” If it is to operate by way of reservation, that is to say, by…

2Cases cited12 opinions

  1. Bronson v. CoffinMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1871
  2. Ladd v. City of BostonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1890
  3. Ashcroft v. Eastern RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1879
  4. Claflin v. Boston & Albany RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1892
  5. Greene v. CannyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1884

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3Cited by32 opinions

  1. Lorando v. GethroMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1917
  2. Leshefsky v. American EmPloyers' InsuranceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1936
  3. Boyden v. HillMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1908
  4. Nelson v. BaconSupreme Court of Vermont · 1943
  5. Riverbank Improvement Co. v. ChadwickMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1917

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