Crocker v. Cotting
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill IH EQUITY, filed August 20, 1895, against Charles U. Cotting and Francis C. Welch, trustees under the will of Samuel K. Williams, Jonathan A. Lane, John C. Lane, and George S. Winslow, trustees under the will of George S. Winslow, and the Murdock Parlor Grate Company, which corporation was the tenant of Cotting and Welch, to restrain the defendants from forcibly interfering with the plaintiffs in the erection of a bridge across a passageway lying between two parcels of…
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Bill IH EQUITY, filed August 20, 1895, against Charles U. Cotting and Francis C. Welch, trustees under the will of Samuel K. Williams, Jonathan A. Lane, John C. Lane, and George S. Winslow, trustees under the will of George S. Winslow, and the Murdock Parlor Grate Company, which corporation was the tenant of Cotting and Welch, to restrain the defendants from forcibly interfering with the plaintiffs in the erection of a bridge across a passageway lying between two parcels of land belonging to the plaintiffs, one situated on the corner of Boylston Street and Carver Street, and the other on…
1Opinion of the CourtHolmes, J.
The original bill in this case was brought to enjoin the defendants from forcibly interfering with the plaintiffs in the erection of a bridge across a passageway five feet wide lying between two parcels of land in Boston belonging to the plaintiffs. The plaintiffs claim a title to the fee under all of the passageway except the northerly half of a part of it lying nearest to Carver Street, into which it opens. Their title rests on deeds executed by the owners of the land in question, to one Dexter and one Bates, in 1843. The defendants claim title to the fee of the way in common with the…
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