Legal Opinion
Tattan v. Kurlan
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided March 20, 1992No. 90-P-585PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLaurence, J.
The plaintiff, Francis D. Tattan, Jr., filed an action in the Superior Court in Worcester County in 1989 for a declaration that he, and not the defendants, owns two strips of land, each fifty feet wide, in two separate but adjacent subdivisions. The original developers had drawn and designated one of the strips as a “future roadway” and the other as a “prospective street” on plans recorded in the Worcester district registry of deeds. One of the strips abuts property of the defendants Allan and Marilyn Kurlan, and the other abuts land of the defendant Sherman. Tattan had purchased the original…
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