Town of Nantucket v. Mitchell

This is a petition to register title to a strip of land in that part of the petitioning town known as Siasconset. The petitioner claims title ultimately through one Flagg and immediately under deed from the Proprietors of the Common and Undivided Land of the Island of Nantucket, hereafter called Proprietors, subject to trusts therein declared. In 1873 Flagg owned a large tract of land including a part, if not the whole, of the locus. So far as concerns the present controversy, it was (as found by the trial judge) bounded easterly by a line substantially at the foot of a high bank or bluff,…