Solis v. Williams
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on December 11, 1907, against William Williams and Robert J. Jones, seeking to have cancelled and discharged certain tax deeds under which the defendant Jones claimed title to real estate numbered 56 on Liverpool Street in that part of Boston called East Boston, and for an accounting of rents and profits received by the defendants. The case was referred to Charles E. Shattuck, Esquire, as master.
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Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on December 11, 1907, against William Williams and Robert J. Jones, seeking to have cancelled and discharged certain tax deeds under which the defendant Jones claimed title to real estate numbered 56 on Liverpool Street in that part of Boston called East Boston, and for an accounting of rents and profits received by the defendants. The case was referred to Charles E. Shattuck, Esquire, as master. Numerous exceptions to the report of the master were filed, most of which, because of the reasons expressed in the last paragraph of the opinion, have…
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
The demurrer having been rightly overruled as the bill on its face stated a case for equitable relief, the question for decision is whether upon the master’s report, to which the plaintiffs have taken numerous exceptions, the decree dismissing the bill should be reversed.
By his will, Sewell F. Barker devised to his son, Charles H. Barker, a life estate with remainder to his other children, Mary E. Cary, Eliza J. Solis and Sewell F. Barker. The tenant for life having died, the plaintiffs Solis and Barker, in whom the remainder vested at the testator’s death, and the plaintiff Cary who claims…
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