Legal Opinion
Dyer v. Siano
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided December 1, 1937PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLummus, J.
The plaintiffs’ devisor, who died in 1923, purported to acquire between 1899 and 1906 the supposed reversionary interests of the grantors in a deed to the Commonwealth given in 1867. Whatever title the Commonwealth or its successors in title had under that deed passed to the Boston and Maine Railroad in 1919 and from it to the defendant. The question is, whether the claim of the plaintiffs or that of the defendant is the better. The decree upheld the claim of the plaintiffs, and the defendant appealed.
The deed conveyed lands in Deerfield “situated upon the line of the Troy & Greenfield…
2Cases cited33 opinions
- Boston & Albany Railroad v. ReardonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1917
- First Universalist Society of North Adams v. BolandMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1892
- MacLeod v. DavisMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1935
- Willets v. LanghaarMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1912
- Dubinsky v. CamaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1927
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3Cited by24 opinions
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