Clifford L. Swan Co. v. Dean

On June 27, 1949, one Lewis and the defendant Dean were owners of adjoining land. A plan of the Lewis land had been duly recorded in the Registry of Deeds by a predecessor in title in 1909. This plan divided the property into house lots, and showed a proposed street known as Hayden Street fifty feet in width and lying along the side of the Lewis land where it adjoined the Dean land. Lots were sold from time to time to third parties with reference to the recorded plan. No use of the proposed street was ever made by the public, and the street was never accepted by the municipality.

On the day…