Skinner v. Shepard
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract for breach of the covenants in a deed of land in Woburn from the defendants to the plaintiffs. Trial in this court, before Lord, J., who reported the case before verdict for the determination of the full court. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, J.
On April 16, 1859, Willis Bueknam, now deceased, conveyed the land in question to Harris Munroe and others by a deed, which bounded it on one side by Green Street and on another side by the Woburn Branch Railroad, and which, after the description and before the habendum, contained this provision: “ Said premises are hereby conveyed subject to the condition that no building shall ever be placed on that part of the same lying within twenty-five feet of said Green Street, and also that the present occupant of a part of the premises near said railroad for a lumber-yard shall be allowed the time…
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