Hunt v. City of Boston
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tout, for the conversion of gravel. Writ dated January 26, 1895. In the Superior Court the case was heard by Hardy, J., without a jury, upon an auditor’s report. The judge found the facts to be as set forth in the auditor’s report. He ruled that the plaintiffs were entitled to recover $990.12 with interest from the date of the writ, and reported the case- for determination by this court, such judgment to be entered as law and justice might require.
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
The plaintiffs are owners of a large tract of land consisting of marsh, beach and flats in Dorchester, Boston, which they acquired from a person who was the purchaser at a sale for non-payment of taxes assessed for the year 1889 to Benjamin F. Butler who was then the owner of the property. Previously to Mr. Butler’s acquisition of his title the former owners made and delivered to the city of Boston an instrument under seal, which was duly acknowledged and recorded, whereby they conveyed to the city for a valuable consideration fifty-three hundred and forty squares, more or less, of gravel…
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