Legal Opinion
Wolfe v. Gormally
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided January 16, 2004PublishedCited by 63 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtIreland, J.
This case raises the question whether the record title of real estate should reflect the pendency of any action that “affects the title to real property or the use and occupation thereof” as that phrase is used in the first paragraph of the lis pendens statute, G. L. c. 184, § 15, as amended through St. 1985, c. 809.2 It arises out of a common scheme of restrictive covenants imposed on a subdivision by the original developer and later reimposed by the successor developer, who sold some of the lots to the defendant, John J. Gormally, Jr. (developer), who now seeks to develop these lots…
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