Harvey v. Byrnes
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for breaking and entering the plaintiff’s close in Springfield. At the trial in the superior court, before Pitman, J., it appeared that by deed dated July 8, 1864, William Hynes conveyed to Patrick Hynes, for $1600, the three lots of land marked A, B and C, on the plan copied in the margin; that by deed dated July 31, 1865, Patrick Hynes, in consideration of $100, conveyed to the plaintiff “ a certain parcel of real estate situated on the south side of Cedar Street in…
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Tort for breaking and entering the plaintiff’s close in Springfield. At the trial in the superior court, before Pitman, J., it appeared that by deed dated July 8, 1864, William Hynes conveyed to Patrick Hynes, for $1600, the three lots of land marked A, B and C, on the plan copied in the margin; that by deed dated July 31, 1865, Patrick Hynes, in consideration of $100, conveyed to the plaintiff “ a certain parcel of real estate situated on the south side of Cedar Street in Springfield, bounded and described as follows: Beginning at land of Julia A. Edwards, thence westerly on said Cedar…
1Opinion of the CourtM Ortos, J.
The plaintiff claims under a deed from Patrick Hynes. At the date of this deed Patrick Hynes owned two lots on Cedar Street, one a rectangle, the other a triangle, separated from each other by an intervening lot belonging to Julia A. Edwards, and the deed conveys a portion of the triangular lot. Both of these lots, together with the Edwards lot, were conveyed to Patrick Hynes by deed of William Hynes dated July 8, 1864. The deed to the plaintiff, after the description, contains this clause, “ meaning to convey to said Jane one half of all that 1 now own of land conveyed to me by deed of…
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