City of Boston v. Richardson

This is a writ of entry to recover a strip of land thirty feet wide, extending eastwardly from the foot of Summer Street in Boston at high water mark, as it anciently existed, to low water mark.

The land next above high water mark on either side of the street was described in the original Book of Possessions of the town of Boston as in Richard Gridley and Nicholas Baxter respectively; and as each bounded, towards the other, “with the street,’.’ and, on the east, “the bay.” It has already been decided in this case, upon much consideration, that the boundary “ with the street ” carried the fee…