Reed v. Crapo
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Writ of entry to recover a parcel of land in Taunton. Plea, nul disseisin. Trial in the Superior Court, before Bacon, J., who ordered a verdict for the demandant; and reported the case for the determination of this court. If the order was right, judgment was to be entered on the verdict; otherwise, a new trial was to be granted. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtAmes, J.
The demandant claims title under a deed of a collector of taxes. The tax on the land was assessed to the “heirs of Elizabeth Angelí.” Some of these heirs were residents of the city of Taunton, and the others resided elsewhere, whose names and places of residence may have been unknown to the assessors. On the assumption that the tax was properly assessed upon the owners by that general description, it becomes necessary, in order to sustain the validity of the collector’s deed, to consider whether, in conducting the sale, he proceeded in all particulars according to the provisions of law.
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