Warren v. Bowdran

This is a writ of entry, dated April 9, 1890, to recover a strip of land on Maple Street, in Somerville. The demanded premises and the adjoining lands were, in 1866, owned by one Hadley. In May of that year Hadley conveyed to the tenant a lot of land on Maple Street which did not include the demanded premises. In May, 1868, Hadley conveyed to one Lane, the demandant’s predecessor in title, a lot of land on Maple Street, by a deed which described the land as bounded on one side by the land of the tenant, and on the opposite side by the land of one Connors.

It was admitted that in 1868, and soon…