Quinn v. Hintlian

There is nothing in the decision which casts doubt on the validity of the judge’s findings (1) that the attorney in question saw (and even made a tracing of) the registered plan which disclosed the existence, location and width of the easement running across Lot 172, and (2) that the attorney permitted the respondent to accept a deed which twice referred to the easement “in a conspicuous manner.” As is now agreed, the attorney’s knowledge was properly imputed to the respondent. Flynn v. Wallace, 359 Mass. 711, 717 (1971). Accordingly, there was no error in the further (implicit) finding that…