Legal Opinion
Jenkins v. Ellis
Massachusetts District Court, Appellate Division
Decided May 21, 2008PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBarrett, J.
This case arose out of a dispute about the ownership of a drainage ditch located in the northeast corner of the Meadow Bog, a cranberry bog in West Barnstable that has been owned and operated since 1912 by the family of plaintiff James A. Jenkins (“Jenkins”). A survey plan recorded in the Barnstable County registry of deeds in 1985 shows Jenkins’s ownership of the drainage ditch. Although defendant James H. Ellis (“Ellis”) has lived next door to the bog since 1964, he claimed for the first time in 1996 that he was the owner of the drainage ditch, which forms the boundary between the parties’…
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