Pollock v. Morrison
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Five petitions, to enforce liens upon buildings and land in Somerville under Pub. Sts. c. 191. The petitions, which followed the language of the description in the deed by which the land was conveyed to the respondent in 1896, described it as lot No. 7 on a certain plan bounded “ northeasterly on Pearl -Street forty (40) feet, southeasterly on lot No. 6 on said plan 70 feet, southwesterly on lots 3 and 9 on said plan 40 feet, northwesterly on lot No. 8 on said plan 70 feet,…
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Five petitions, to enforce liens upon buildings and land in Somerville under Pub. Sts. c. 191. The petitions, which followed the language of the description in the deed by which the land was conveyed to the respondent in 1896, described it as lot No. 7 on a certain plan bounded “ northeasterly on Pearl -Street forty (40) feet, southeasterly on lot No. 6 on said plan 70 feet, southwesterly on lots 3 and 9 on said plan 40 feet, northwesterly on lot No. 8 on said plan 70 feet, containing 2,800 square feet.” Trial in the Superior Court without a jury, before HopJcins, J., who found for the…
1Opinion of the CourtHammond, J.
It appeared at the trial that, in 1894, the respondent bought a lot of land on the southwesterly comer of Pearl and Walnut Streets, in Somerville, and thereafter proceeded to build thereon a block of buildings; that in the construction of the block he found the lot too small for it as planned; that during its construction he purchased a lot adjoining on the west, being the land described in this petition; and that immediately after the purchase of this second lot he put up a fence some feet westerly of the old division line between the two lots, said fence running from the southerly line of…
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