Legal Opinion
Nickols v. Commissioners of Middlesex County
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided May 3, 1960PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCutter, J.
Statute 1922, c. 499, established the Walden Pond State Reservation. Section 1 authorized the commissioners of the county of Middlesex to take by gift land near the pond, “title to ... be ... in the commonwealth . . . subject to such restrictions and conditions as may be imposed under deeds of gift.” Section 3 2 gave to the com missioners “full . . . authority to . . . maintain the . . . reservation in behalf of the commonwealth.” Certain tax support was authorized. By deeds recorded on June 9, 1922, donors in the Emerson and Heywood families gave to the Commonwealth land (the Emerson and…
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