Williams v. Bowers
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Writ oe entry, brought in the Land Court under St. 1904, c. 448, dated August 11, 1905, for a certain parcel of land in Dedham, consisting of lot 6 and parts of lots 5 and 7 on a plan of Fairbanks Park in Plan Book 16 in the Norfolk registry of deeds.
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Writ oe entry, brought in the Land Court under St. 1904, c. 448, dated August 11, 1905, for a certain parcel of land in Dedham, consisting of lot 6 and parts of lots 5 and 7 on a plan of Fairbanks Park in Plan Book 16 in the Norfolk registry of deeds. The demandants claimed under a tax deed from the collector of taxes of the town of Dedham to them, dated January 21, 1908, given in pursuance of a sale on January 17, 1903, for nonpayment of taxes assessed to one Fred H. Searles, a non-resident. The collector’s notice of the sale was as follows: “ The owners and occupants of the following…
1Opinion of the CourtB ealet, J.
The right of the demandants to have the land registered depends upon the validity of their title, which is derived from a sale of the estate by the collector .for non-payment of taxes. The first and eighth exceptions to the master’s report having been waived below, while the second, third and fourth not having been argued, must be considered as waived here, and the seventh having been disposed of by the findings of fact, the case is before us on the remaining exceptions. These relate solely to the validity of the collector’s .notice of sale. By R. L. c. 13, § 38, “ a substantially accurate…
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