Luce v. Parsons
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, filed in the Land Court on February 16, 1904, for the registration of the petitioner’s alleged "title to the westerly portion of Brier Neck, formerly called Salt Island Neck, in Gloucester. The petitioner claimed under certain deeds and also by the adverse possession of himself and his predecessors in title. In the Land Court Davis, J. found for the petitioner, and the respondents appealed to the Superior Court.
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Petition, filed in the Land Court on February 16, 1904, for the registration of the petitioner’s alleged "title to the westerly portion of Brier Neck, formerly called Salt Island Neck, in Gloucester. The petitioner claimed under certain deeds and also by the adverse possession of himself and his predecessors in title. In the Land Court Davis, J. found for the petitioner, and the respondents appealed to the Superior Court. The issues framed in the Land Court by Davis, J. for the appeal were as follows : “ 1. Is the land claimed by the petitioner the same land, in whole or in part, as that…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
The exceptions presented by this bill were taken at a trial in the Superior Court, on an appeal from the Land Court upon a petition for the registration of a title. The questions at the trial were many and complicated, having reference to titles which the respective parties sought to establish under a grant from the town of Gloucester, made in 1707, of a neck of land lying on the sea. There was also a claim by adverse possession. The questions of law now to be considered are few and simple.
Immediately after the beginning of the trial the respondents asked the judge to rule that they were…
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