Stone v. Stone
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity to redeem from a mortgage certain land partly in that part of Boston called Charlestown and partly in Everett, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court July 13, 1898. The case was heard by Hammond, J., upon a master’s report and exceptions thereto.
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Bill in equity to redeem from a mortgage certain land partly in that part of Boston called Charlestown and partly in Everett, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court July 13, 1898. The case was heard by Hammond, J., upon a master’s report and exceptions thereto. The justice after stating his rulings upon the exceptions to the master’s report made the following memorandum of decision : “ I find that the deed from the city of Charlestown to John Gary, dated December 19, 1854, was given for the purpose of releasing certain land and flats which formerly belonged, or were supposed to belong, to the…
1Opinion of the CourtLoring, J.
This is a bill in equity to redeem from a mortgage certain land lying partly in the Charlestown District of the city of Boston and partly in Everett. The land was bought in 1854 from the city of Charlestown by Phineas and Amos Stone and three other persons named Gary, Howland, and Sewall. The interests of the several purchasers were originally — Gary, one quarter; Howland, one quarter; Sewall, Phineas and Amos Stone, one sixth each. In 1860, Howland sold his one quarter interest to Phineas and Amos Stone and Sewall, and thereafter each of the remaining purchasers, namely, Gary, Sewall, and…
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