Bloch v. Pfaff
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Writ of entry for a strip of land, lying on the boundary of the estates of the respective parties, on Eliot Street in Boston, and extending northerly from said street to the rear line of the estates.
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Writ of entry for a strip of land, lying on the boundary of the estates of the respective parties, on Eliot Street in Boston, and extending northerly from said street to the rear line of the estates. At the trial in the superior court, before Lord, J., it appeared that both parties claimed title from a common source, Mary Smith, who in 1781 owned a tract of land bounded southerly by Eliot Street, and extending from Pleasant Street on the west to the west line of land of heirs of John Eliot on the east; that in that year there was conveyed to John Innis a parcel of this tract, described in the…
1Opinion of the CourtColt, J.
We know of no rule of construction which would extend the line on Eliot Street beyond the distance given in the deed of Smith to Innis in 1781, under which the demandant claims title.
The whole tract of land owned by Mary Smith, of which this deed conveyed a part, is bounded on its southerly side by Eliot Street, and is located between Pleasant Street on the west, and the line of land of the Eliot heirs on the east. By subsequent deeds, the remainder of the land was conveyed in two lots. The distances as given on Eliot Street, in these three deeds, amount, in the whole, to ninety-six feet. It…
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