Stevens v. Young
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, filed in the Land Court on May 21, 1917, for the registration of the title to certain land in Swampscott, described as one parcel, but roughly shown on the sketch plan, of which a copy is printed below, as lots thirteen to eighteen, inclusive, including that land between lots sixteen and seventeen designated as Locust Avenue.
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Petition, filed in the Land Court on May 21, 1917, for the registration of the title to certain land in Swampscott, described as one parcel, but roughly shown on the sketch plan, of which a copy is printed below, as lots thirteen to eighteen, inclusive, including that land between lots sixteen and seventeen designated as Locust Avenue. The respondent, who owned lots thirty to forty, inclusive, including the fee in Walnut Avenue and that land lying between lots thirty-nine and forty and designated Locust Avenue, claimed a right of way over the part of Locust Avenue between lots sixteen and…
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
It appears that Samuel F. Grosman, having acquired the ownership of nine acres of land, caused a plan to be prepared dividing the tract into lots numbered consecutively from one to forty with proposed avenues or streets which connected with Humphrey Street, a public way. The plan was recorded in the registry of deeds, and by mesne conveyances the petitioner has become the owner of lots thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen and eighteen, while the respondent Young owns lots numbered thirty to forty inclusive.
By the first deed in 1900 Grosman conveyed to one Entwistle, the…
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