Wilson v. Underhill
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Writ oe entry to recover a small- parcel of woodland in Ipswich. Trial in the superior court, before Brigham, C. J., who by consent of the parties made a report of the case before verdict, for the determination of this court, the substance of which is stated in the opinion. The plan of the land is copied in the margin.
1Opinion of the CourtGbay, J.
The decision of this case turns upon the construction of the deed by which the tenant in 1834 conveyed to the demandant “two lots of upland and meadow, bounded on the county road, land of Jeremiah Underhill, deceased, Benjamin Patch, deceased, and Miles River, so called: It being the same mentioned in a deed from Oliver Appleton to Tristram Appleton, and registered in -the register’s office May 23, 1823.” The description of the granted premises in the deed thus referred to, as well as in the mesne conveyance in 1832 from Tristram Appleton to the tenant, is precisely similar, except in…
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