Driscoll v. County Commissioners

This is a petition to register title to a parcel of land in Lynn. The respondents contend that the southeasterly part of the locus is a portion of a public way.

A law enacted in 1802 incorporating the Salem and Chelsea Bridge Turnpike provides that: “open uninclosed ground shall be at least four rods wide on the upland, and eight rods wide at least (including the canals) on the marsh . . . throughout the whole length of said road over said marsh . . . and the made-way or path for travelling shall be of sufficient width, and not less than twenty four feet wide, in any part thereof, and over the…