Makepeace Bros. v. Town of Barnstable

The petition seeks registration of title to a tract of over seven hundred acres with a frontage of about two miles on Cape Cod Bay at Sandy Neck in Barnstable, Massachusetts, and is before this court on an appeal by the town of Barnstable from a decision of the Land Court ordering a decree for the petitioner for registration of said land.

The material facts set forth in the decision of the Land Court are as follows: “Sandy Neck forms the greater part of a peninsula, about seven miles long, that stretches easterly along the shore of Sandwich and Barnstable between the Bay on the north and the…