Trojanowski v. MacLachlan
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, filed in the Land Court on October 29, 1920, for the registration of the title to certain land in Salem. The land which is the subject matter of the petition is a part of the parcel sold at the execution sale which was the foundation of the title registered by the decision reported in Solomcos v. MacLachlan, 236 Mass. 402. In the Land Court the petition was heard by Corbett, J. Material facts found by him in a decision which did not purport to recite all of the…
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Petition, filed in the Land Court on October 29, 1920, for the registration of the title to certain land in Salem. The land which is the subject matter of the petition is a part of the parcel sold at the execution sale which was the foundation of the title registered by the decision reported in Solomcos v. MacLachlan, 236 Mass. 402. In the Land Court the petition was heard by Corbett, J. Material facts found by him in a decision which did not purport to recite all of the evidence, are described in the opinion. The decision also stated, “No evidence was introduced showing that the subsequent…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
This is a petition for the registration of title to a parcel of land in Salem. The case comes before us on appeal from a decision of the Land Court ordering a decree in favor of the petitioner. The findings of fact made by the Land Court in the absence of evidence must be accepted as final. The chain of title of the petitioner comes through a sale regularly made on an execution issued after judgment against the respondent in favor of the tax collector of Salem, in an action on which attachment was made on September 29, 1916.* At that time there was an attachment of the same real…
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