Mahan v. Town of Rockport

This is a petition to register the title to land in Rockport, Massachusetts, on the north side of Curtis Street at its junction with Granite Street. The record title of the petitioner is confined to the middle section of said land on which the dwelling house and its projections rest. The town of Rockport asserts that the petitioner’s claim encroaches on a town way, to wit: said Curtis Street forty feet wide, laid out by the selectmen and accepted by a vote of the town at its annual meeting March 4, 1889.

Pub. Sts. c. 49, § 65, in force in 1889, provides that selectmen “may lay out or alter…