Holt v. Weld

This is a bill in equity to remove a cloud upon the title of the plaintiffs to a lot of land in Lynn.

1. The land was, in 1876, conveyed by two deeds to “ Mary Ann Holt, wife of John Holt of Lynn.” It was clearly competent for the plaintiff John Holt to testify that the grantee named in said deeds was his wife; that she was dead; and that the other plaintiffs were her only children. This was the best evidence of those facts.

B. F. Briggs, for the defendant. T. F. Bartlett, for the plaintiffs.

2. It was too late for the defendant, after a hearing upon the merits, to object that the plaintiff had…