Hobart v. Weston
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, filed in the Land Court on June 25, 1913, for registration of the petitioner’s title to a strip of land at Nantasket Beach in the town of Hull lying between the easterly line of Franklin Street and the ocean and including the beach and flats to low water mark. The case was heard by Corbett, J., whose rulings and findings are stated in the opinion. He made the decree there described; and the respondents alleged exceptions.
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Petition, filed in the Land Court on June 25, 1913, for registration of the petitioner’s title to a strip of land at Nantasket Beach in the town of Hull lying between the easterly line of Franklin Street and the ocean and including the beach and flats to low water mark. The case was heard by Corbett, J., whose rulings and findings are stated in the opinion. He made the decree there described; and the respondents alleged exceptions. On page 163 is printed a reduced copy of the material part of the 1885 plan of the lands of the Nantasket Company which is mentioned in the opinion. In this copy…
1Opinion of the CourtCarroll, J.
1. This is a petition to register the title to a parcel of land situate between Franklin Street and low water mark on the ocean in the town of Hull. A decree was entered for the petitioners subject to the rights of the public below mean high water mark, and also subject to all rights legally existing in the town of Hull, referred to in St. 1811, c. 56. See Ripley v. Knight, 123 Mass. 515. The case is before us on the exceptions of the respondents.
In 1881 the Nantasket Company, a voluntary association, owned a large tract of land extending substantially from the Ocean House on the south, in…
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