Matthys v. First Swedish Baptist Church

The plaintiff and the defendant own adjoining estates. The roof of the defendant’s church, built before 1860, extends a distance of four feet over the plaintiff’s land, permitting snow and ice to fall thereon.

In 1883 title to the above estates was in the same owner. December 5 of that year the land now owned by the plaintiff was *545conveyed to a predecessor in title by deed, which established as the division line between the two tracts “ a straight line through the centre of the Westerly wall of the stone meeting house now standing on the corner of said Shawmut Avenue and Rutland Street and now…