Legal Opinion
Lombard v. United States
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided October 26, 1999No. 99-1108PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOUDIN, Circuit Judge.
This appeal arises out of a title dispute between a family and the United States over an 8.6 acre parcel, known as the Lombard lot, containing within it a family cemetery and located in the Bound Brook Island area of Wellfleet, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The lot was once owned by Thomas Lombard, who died in 1873, leaving it to his five children as tenants in common. Then, in 1924, two of the children conveyed their interests to one George Higgins, possibly saying that they owned the entire parcel. In all events, George Higgins thereafter claimed ownership of the entire…
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