Loring v. Mercier

This is a petition in the Land Court to register title to a parcel of land in Belchertown. The respondent, an abutter on the east and south, filed an answer denying the petitioner’s title. The actual dispute concerned the eastern boundary and part of the southern boundary. The judge filed a decision in which he found that these boundaries were as contended by the respondent, and that the petitioner was entitled to register title to a portion only of the parcel. The petitioner appealed.

At the outset of the hearing in the Land Court the parties agreed upon all the boundaries except that on the…