American Unitarian Ass'n v. Minot
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, filed July 24,1903, to determine the validity, nature and extent of certain alleged restrictions on the petitioner’s land at the corner of Beacon and Bowdoin Streets in Boston. The case was entered on the equity docket of the Superior Court and came on to be heard before Hardy, J., upon the pleadings and an agreed statement of facts.
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Petition, filed July 24,1903, to determine the validity, nature and extent of certain alleged restrictions on the petitioner’s land at the corner of Beacon and Bowdoin Streets in Boston. The case was entered on the equity docket of the Superior Court and came on to be heard before Hardy, J., upon the pleadings and an agreed statement of facts. Following the form of reservation in regard to which no question had been raised in Boston Baptist Social Union v. Boston University, 183 Mass. 202, the judge at the request of the parties reserved the case for determination by this court. The case…
1Opinion of the CourtBoring, J.
This is a petition under St. 1889, c. 442, now R. B. c. 182, § 11, in which the petitioner seeks to have it decided that the equitable restriction is no longer in force which was created by two deeds under which it claims title executed and recorded in 1843. The land of which the parcel now owned by the petitioner was then a part was divided at that time into building lots by the owners of it, who caused the plan of it, dated October 13, 1843, to be made and recorded. The land is there divided into six lots, with a frontage on Beacon Street varying from twenty-seven to thirty-three feet.…
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