Town of Brewster v. Sherwood Forest Realty, Inc.

From a record replete with factual detail, the Land Court judge correctly determined that summary judgment should enter for the town based on the failure of Sherwood Forest Realty, Inc. (Sherwood), to take any action to vacate the Land Court foreclosure decree of 1955, despite knowing of the town’s tax title claim for at least twenty-three years. General Laws c. 60, § 69A, as appearing in St. 1945, c. 226, § 2, provides that a petition to vacate a decree of foreclosure must be filed within one year after entry of the decree. “Following this one-year period, the statute imposes an absolute bar…