Roberts v. Welsh
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Three bills in equity, filed in the Superior Court on May 31,1904, June 9,1904, and January 23, 1905, each to remove an alleged cloud from the plaintiff’s title to certain real estate on Jerome Street in that part of Medford called West Medford, as set forth in the first paragraph of the opinion.
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Three bills in equity, filed in the Superior Court on May 31,1904, June 9,1904, and January 23, 1905, each to remove an alleged cloud from the plaintiff’s title to certain real estate on Jerome Street in that part of Medford called West Medford, as set forth in the first paragraph of the opinion. In the Superior Court the cases were heard by Sherman, J., who reported each of them for determination by this court, such decree to be entered in each case as law and justice might require.
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
These are three bills in equity, each brought to remove a cloud from the plaintiffs title to certain real estate, caused by a deed from the collector of taxes, held by the defendant. In each case the title of the plaintiff is admitted, except so far as it is affected by the sale for non-payment of taxes under which the defendant claims. There were three separate sales, for the taxes of three different years, namely, 1900,1901 and 1902. In the first suit the defendant claims under the sale for the non-payment of the taxes of 1900, in the second under the sale to collect the tax of 1901, and in…
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