Legal Opinion
Tobin v. Gillespie
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided September 5, 1890PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtField, C. J.
This is a bill in equity, filed February 26,1889, by Mary A. E. Tobin, a daughter of «John Tobin, deceased, and by Bridget Tobin, his widow, against Mary Ann Gillespie, for the purpose of removing a cloud from the titles of the plaintiffs to land resulting from alleged sales thereof for taxes. In 1873,1874, 1875, and 1876, taxes on the land were assessed to the “ John Tobin heirs,” and sales were made in 1874,1875,1876, and 1877, of the land for the non-payment of these taxes, except that in 1875 the sale was of one undivided half of the land. Mrs. Julia Martin was the purchaser at all these…
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3Cited by9 opinions
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