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Sutcliffe v. Burns

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided March 30, 1936PublishedCited by 12 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtPierce, J.

This is a petition to register title to land in that part of Marblehead known as Naugus Head. The petition was contested by fifty-two respondents. Following an adverse report by the examiner, the case was heard on the examiner’s abstracts from the public records, and on oral and documentary evidence.

The locus here in controversy consists of a triangular parcel of land, having its base on Salem Harbor and its apex at a point in what is admittedly the boundary line between land owned by the petitioner’s wife and land claimed by the respondents and formerly known as the Sparhawk land. The…

2Cases cited16 opinions

  1. Boston & Albany Railroad v. ReardonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1917
  2. Erickson v. AmesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1928
  3. Hughes v. WilliamsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1918
  4. Temple v. BensonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1912
  5. Holmes v. BarrettMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1929

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3Cited by12 opinions

  1. Oldfield v. SmithMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1939
  2. Levin v. RoseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1939
  3. Lyon v. ParkinsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1953
  4. Hopkins v. HolcombeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1941
  5. Marshall v. FrancisMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1955

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