Wishart v. McKnight
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Wbit of entby to recover a strip of land ten feet wide lying on the westerly side of the demandant’s dwelling-house on Pond Court in the town of Clinton. Writ dated July 20, 1897. The tenant had occupied the demanded premises for many years, but less than twenty years, and to the demandant’s writ pleaded title to the demanded premises. The above plan was copied from a plan used at the trial and at the argument before this court.
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Wbit of entby to recover a strip of land ten feet wide lying on the westerly side of the demandant’s dwelling-house on Pond Court in the town of Clinton. Writ dated July 20, 1897. The tenant had occupied the demanded premises for many years, but less than twenty years, and to the demandant’s writ pleaded title to the demanded premises. The above plan was copied from a plan used at the trial and at the argument before this court. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Fessenden, J., the demandant put in evidence deeds which showed that he held the record title to the land demanded. The…
1Opinion of the CourtLoring, J.
It appears from the photograph and plan made a part of the bill of exceptions that the demanded premises consist of a strip of land ten feet wide between the dwelling-houses of the demandant and of the tenant, running from Pond Court, on which those houses front, to the rear line of the lots ; that the rear of the locus is covered by a barn, used and occupied by the tenant, which is in part on the locus and in part on the land to which the tenant, without question, has a good title; and further, that the tenant’s only access by wagon to the barn is over the locus, his dwelling-house being…
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