Temple v. Benson
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, filed in the Land Court on September 8, 1910, for the registration of the title to certain land on East Quincy Street in North Adams. In the Land Court the case was heard by Bams, J. The only issue at the trial was the position of the southerly line of the petitioner’s land as shown on the sketch on the next page.
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Petition, filed in the Land Court on September 8, 1910, for the registration of the title to certain land on East Quincy Street in North Adams. In the Land Court the case was heard by Bams, J. The only issue at the trial was the position of the southerly line of the petitioner’s land as shown on the sketch on the next page. In 1870 one Sylvester A. ICemp owned land which included the locus and land immediately east and south of it shown on the plan as land of the respondent, and conveyed to one Josiah Tinney the locus and the lot east of it by a deed with the following description: “Situate…
1Opinion of the CourtBbaley, J.
The petitioner by mesne conveyances and the *132respondent by direct grant derive title to their respective lands which are contiguous on the south from a common grantor Sylvester A. ICemp, and as the duly recorded deed from him to • Joseph Tinney under whom the petitioner claims, antedates his deed to the respondent, it follows upon comparison of the descriptions, that when the position of the disputed southerly line of the petitioner’s lot has been ascertained the northerly line of the respondent’s lot also will have been defined, and the controversy determined.
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