Hobart v. Towle
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, filed in the Land Court on October 14, 1913, for the registration of the title to a parcel of land with the buildings thereon at Nantasket Beach in the town of Hull. The case was,heard by Darns, J., who made a decision in substance as follows: The land in question in this case consists of a strip about four hundred and twenty feet long by fifty feet wide, and lying between A and Lewis Streets adjoining the Waveland railroad station in the town of Hull.
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Petition, filed in the Land Court on October 14, 1913, for the registration of the title to a parcel of land with the buildings thereon at Nantasket Beach in the town of Hull. The case was,heard by Darns, J., who made a decision in substance as follows: The land in question in this case consists of a strip about four hundred and twenty feet long by fifty feet wide, and lying between A and Lewis Streets adjoining the Waveland railroad station in the town of Hull. In 1885 the Nantasket Company, which at that time owned all the land in the vicinity, recorded in the registry of deeds a plan of…
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
The lands owned by the parties are part of a large tract of unimproved sea shore property formerly owned by the Nantasket Company, which laid it out into building lots with streets or ways shown by a plan duly recorded. By the plan Manomet Avenue, fifty feet in width and one of the principal ways, apparently did not extend beyond the southerly line of Lewis Street, which it intersected, leaving between this line and A Street, the boundary on the .south, a parcel of undesignated land of approximately three quarters of an acre. The company very shortly after conveyed the property to trustees…
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