Prentiss v. City of Gloucester
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, filed in the Land Court on March 20, 1919, for the registration of the title to land on Eastern Point in Gloucester.
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Petition, filed in the Land Court on March 20, 1919, for the registration of the title to land on Eastern Point in Gloucester. The respondents were the city of Gloucester and the Attorney General, who claimed certain public rights described in the decision of the judge of the Land Court; George O. Stacy; Herbert E. and Arthur W. Smith; and Joseph O. Procter, William H. Jordan and Joseph O. Procter, Jr., Trustees, all of whom claimed “a right of way across the parcels described in the petition, on the location of the present Eastern Point Boulevard (East).” A sketch plan, compiled from several…
1Opinion of the CourtJenney, J.
This case is here on the respondents’ exceptions in proceedings for registration of the title to land on Eastern Point in Gloucester. The exceptions are to certain findings of fact and rulings made, all relating to easements claimed to exist over the petitioner’s land. While the existence of ways public and private by prescription was in controversy, the findings of fact disposed of these contentions and no question relating thereto is now involved.
The petitioner’s land in 1887 was included in the Niles farm, a tract of about four hundred acres, bounded easterly and southerly by the ocean,…
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