Phelps v. Creed
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two bills m equity, filed in the Superior Court on November 16, 1912, by the owner of two parcels of land in Williamstown against different defendants, to redeem such parcels from certain tax sales mentioned in the opinion, and amended, against the defendants’ objections, on December 1, 1915, and September 20, 1915, by substituting bills to remove clouds from the plaintiff’s title by setting aside the tax sales, with prayers for alternative relief as on bills to redeem, if…
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Two bills m equity, filed in the Superior Court on November 16, 1912, by the owner of two parcels of land in Williamstown against different defendants, to redeem such parcels from certain tax sales mentioned in the opinion, and amended, against the defendants’ objections, on December 1, 1915, and September 20, 1915, by substituting bills to remove clouds from the plaintiff’s title by setting aside the tax sales, with prayers for alternative relief as on bills to redeem, if the court should determine that the tax sales were valid. The two cases were referred to a master and were heard by him…
1Opinion of the CourtPierce, J.
These are two bills in equity to remove a cloud alleged to rest on the title of the plaintiff to two distinct parcels *230of land, or, in the alternative, to redeem the same parcels, sold with other land for the non-payment of taxes assessed to George L. Phelps for the years 1905 and 1906 to the defendant Temple, who in March, 1909, executed and delivered to the defendant Creed a deed of the parcel described as the “Mountain Wood Lot” and in March, 1910, executed and delivered to the defendant Davison a deed of the parcel known as the “Sherman Farm.”
The original bills were filed November 16,…
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