Pearson v. Allen
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on April 1, 1889, by the owner of lots marked 27, 28, and 44 on a plan, which lots are situated at Nantucket Bluff, so called, in Nantucket, between a public way, called North Street, on the west, and Cliff Avenue, a private way on the east, to restrain the defendant, who was the owner of the lots marked 4, 5, 9, and 10 on the same plan, situated to the east of the plaintiff’s lots, from obstructing the plaintiff’s use of certain…
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Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on April 1, 1889, by the owner of lots marked 27, 28, and 44 on a plan, which lots are situated at Nantucket Bluff, so called, in Nantucket, between a public way, called North Street, on the west, and Cliff Avenue, a private way on the east, to restrain the defendant, who was the owner of the lots marked 4, 5, 9, and 10 on the same plan, situated to the east of the plaintiff’s lots, from obstructing the plaintiff’s use of certain ways. A sketch of the material portion of the plan is printed in the margin, North Street was shown on the plan as…
1Opinion of the CourtHolmes, J.
The plaintiff and the defendant are both owners of building lots sold with reference to the same plan, which displays a large tract cut up into house lots and ways. The only public way near the tract is North Street, which is shown on the west side of the plan. The plan shows ways leading directly to this street from the plaintiff’s lots. Her lots also are drawn as abutting upon a way called Grant Avenue, from which there is delineated, extending in an opposite direction from North Street, a way called Centre Avenue, which begins directly opposite two of the plaintiff’s lots, at a distance of…
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