Foster v. City of Boston

This is a bill in equity in which the plaintiffs allege that, as trustees under a deed from the Boston Water Power Company, they made a contract to sell a parcel of the land conveyed to them by the deed; that the contract purchaser refuses to accept a deed, on the ground that the plaintiffs cannot give a clear title by reason of a right in the land given by the corporation, the Boston Water Power Company, to the defendant, prior to the deed to the plaintiffs. The plaintiffs further allege that they took their deed without notice of the defendant’s right, and are not bound by it, on the ground…