Keen v. Sheehan
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Writ of entry, to recover a parcel of land in Cambridge. The case was submitted to the Superior Court, and, after judgment for the demandant, to this court on appeal, on agreed facts, which, so far as material to the point decided, appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtHolmes, J.
This is á writ of entry, brought by one purchaser at a tax-sale against another. The land was advertised at the same time in the same newspaper by the same collector for the taxes of 1880 and of 1881. At the time and place appointed it was sold to the tenant for the taxes of 1880, and later at the same sale it was sold to the demandant for the taxes of 1881. The deed to.the demandant is dated a day later than the deed to the tenant.
The only question intended to be raised is whether land can *209be sold thus successively, at the same time and place, by the same collector, for the taxes of…
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