Walter Kassuba Realty Corp. v. Akeson

The owners of the locus, a tract of land in Stoneham, brought a petition in the Land Court under G. L. c. 185, as amended, to register the title. Later a purchaser of the locus was substituted as petitioner. The respondents, abutting owners, claim rights of way over “paper” streets running through the locus, and appeal from a decision of the Land Court that the petitioner is entitled to a decree registering title to the locus.

The land of the respondents abuts the locus on the north. The locus may be approached from the north on any one of three roughly parallel north-south ways: (1) Glen…