Powers v. Padding
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two bills in equity, filed in the Superior Court on June 5, 1916, by the respective owners of parcels of land on the northerly side of Pearl Street in Springfield, known as No. 122 and No. 176 Pearl Street, against Edward Padding of Springfield, the owner of a parcel of land on the northerly side of Pearl Street, known as No. 168 Pearl Street, and the defendants Cunliffe and Ford as trustees of a voluntary association called the Mutual Mortgage Investors and as such trustees…
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Two bills in equity, filed in the Superior Court on June 5, 1916, by the respective owners of parcels of land on the northerly side of Pearl Street in Springfield, known as No. 122 and No. 176 Pearl Street, against Edward Padding of Springfield, the owner of a parcel of land on the northerly side of Pearl Street, known as No. 168 Pearl Street, and the defendants Cunliffe and Ford as trustees of a voluntary association called the Mutual Mortgage Investors and as such trustees the owners and holders of a mortgage of the parcel known as 168 Pearl Street, which was made by the defendant Padding…
1Opinion of the CourtPierce, J.
On September 4, 1863, one Bliss was the owner of a tract of land on the northerly side of Pearl Street in the city of Springfield. He had acquired his title in 1832 to a larger tract *112out of which in 1856 he had conveyed to the United States between four and five acres with the understanding that the United States intended to open and construct streets on the westerly and northerly side of the granted premises and to which the grantor reserved to “myself my heirs and assigns of such [that is of the grantor’s] adjoining lands forever, the free right to use the said streets for travel after they…
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