Ober v. Brooks
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed October 12, 1892, to remove a cloud upon the plaintiff’s title to certain premises on Avery Street and Haymarket Place in Boston. Hearing before Morton, J., who directed a decree to be entered for the plaintiff, and, at the defendant’s request, reported the case for the consideration of the full court; such decree to be entered as law and justice might require. The facts appear in the opinion.
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Bill in equity, filed October 12, 1892, to remove a cloud upon the plaintiff’s title to certain premises on Avery Street and Haymarket Place in Boston. Hearing before Morton, J., who directed a decree to be entered for the plaintiff, and, at the defendant’s request, reported the case for the consideration of the full court; such decree to be entered as law and justice might require. The facts appear in the opinion. The case was argued at the bar in December, 1893, and after-wards was submitted on the briefs to all the judges.
1Opinion of the CourtBarker, J.
In a demise dated May 31,1889, but in fact executed and delivered on August 2, 1889, for a term of twenty years from June 10, 1889, the lessors agreed to sell and convey, at any time within five years from June 10, 1889, “ to the said lessee or his assigns, upon his or their request, all their (said lessors’) present rights, titles, interests, and estates, and all the rights, titles, interests, and estates they may have or can by all reasonable acts and efforts at law or in equity obtain or acquire at the date or time of the conveyance in and to all the aforesaid leased premises, with all the…
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