Murphy v. Commonwealth

This was a petition for damages for the taking of twenty-two thousand square feet of land lying on the ocean side of Nahant Neck between Nahant Road and the sea, in the general locality known as Long Beach. The taking was made by the metropolitan park commissioners on September 26, 1900. The respondent admitted the taking but denied title in the petitioners. They claimed title under Thomas B. Murphy who died *363on September 10, 1861, and proved that whatever title he had in the land was in them at the time of the taking except so far as it may have been lost through adverse possession by the…