Lefavour v. McNulty
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Trespass quare clausum, for entering upon the plaintiff’s premises, situated in Salem, on May 1, 1886, and tearing down and destroying a fence thereon. The case was submitted to the Superior Court, and, after judgment for the defendant, to this court, on appeal, on agreed facts, in substance as follows.
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Trespass quare clausum, for entering upon the plaintiff’s premises, situated in Salem, on May 1, 1886, and tearing down and destroying a fence thereon. The case was submitted to the Superior Court, and, after judgment for the defendant, to this court, on appeal, on agreed facts, in substance as follows. In 1669, the plaintiff’s land, marked A, extending- southerly from Main Street, now Essex Street, in Salem, as shown on the following plan, was owned by Henry Kemble; the defendant’s land, a part of which is shown on the plan and marked B, was owned by Alexander Sears; the lot designated on…
1Opinion of the Court
Field, 0. J.
We understand, from the agreed statement of facts, that the way was well defined by boundaries; that it had been used in connection with all the lands hereinafter described since 1669: and that for more than forty years a fence had been maintained across the way at the northerly boundary of what is *416now the defendant’s lot, with a gate in this fence through which the way was used for the purpose of passing to and from Essex' Street from and to the defendant’s lot. From 1866 to 1883 the plaintiff’s land, the defendant’s land, and lot C were owned by Elizabeth Hodges. She might have…
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