Bates v. Town of Cohasset

By the Court.

The subjoined opinion was prepared by Mr. Justice Sanderson, and was adopted after his death as the opinion of the court.

These are two petitions for registration of title to real estate in the town of Cohasset. The Bates petitioners sought to register title to the locus in dispute, and a petition was filed by the town in which the Wights and Barnes et al.- are respondents to register title to the locus in dispute and also other land to the south of that locus. The Bates petitioners will be referred to as the petitioners, and the town of Cohasset, and the Wights and Barnes et al,…