Hano v. Bigelow
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract, to recover a deposit made by the plaintiff, under ati agreement of the defendants to convey to him a parcel of land with a good and clear title, or, failing that, to refund to him the deposit. The case was submitted to the Superior Court, and, after judgment for the plaintiff, to this, court, on agreed facts, the substance of which appears in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, J.
In 1866, one Lockey was the owner of a tract of land in Cambridge, nearly in the shape of a right-angled triangle, the boundary line which formed the hypothenuse of the triangle on the northeasterly side being the Fitchburg Railroad, North Avenue, a much travelled highway one hundred feet wide, lying on the west, and land of private owners on the south. Through this he opened a way called Roseland Street, running easterly to Beacon Street nearly at right angles to North Avenue, which cut off the point of the triangle on the southeast and crossed the Fitchburg Railroad. On October 15, 1866, he…
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