Deane v. Garniss

The facts are agreed. The parties own and occupy adjoining improved parcels of land on Franklin Street in Melrose. The plaintiff applied to the fence viewers of Melrose to order a partition fence. The fence viewers, being duly appointed and sworn, notified and heard the parties, and on March 31,1932, ordered, directed and decreed “that a division line fence is necessary between the two premises to prevent trespassing and damaging the property of the petitioner by the respondent,” and that within twenty days the petitioner erect and maintain the southerly half of the fence and the respondent…