Bemis v. Caldwell
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract for a breach of a covenant against incumbrances in a deed of land from the defendants to the plaintiffs. The case was submitted to the Superior Court, and, after judgment for the plaintiffs, to this court, on appeal, upon agreed facts, the material parts of which appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, C. J.
It appears that, on May 1,1883, the heirs of O. H. B. Caldwell were the owners of a tract of land in Waltham, bounded in part on Weston Street and in part on Main Street. On the tract were a mansion-house, with a stable and greenhouse attached, fronting on Weston Street, and a smaller house fronting on Main Street. The assessors of Waltham taxed this estate for the year 1883 to the said heirs. In the valuation list they entered the estate as follows: “ House, Weston St. $3200. House, Main St. $1600. Stable, $400. Greenhouse, $200. Land, 6 acres, $1800. Aggregate value of real estate, $7200.”…
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