Legal Opinion

McLaughlin v. Cecconi

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided February 26, 1886PublishedCited by 13 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtDeyens, J.

This bill in equity, filed July 29,1885, is brought to restrain the defendant from raising a wall between the houses of the plaintiff and the defendant, and increasing the burden on it, and from cutting away on the front wall of the plaintiff’s house, which covers the wall between said houses, for the purpose of tying the proposed new front wall of the defendant into the side wall. The plaintiff’s title is anterior to that of the defendant, and both claim under a common grantor, Josiah Brown, who, on March 5, 1842, conveyed to one Higgins, the plaintiff’s grantor. The conveyance was by a…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Schile v. . BrokhahusNew York Court of Appeals · 1880
  2. Campbell v. MesierNew York Court of Chancery · 1819

3Cited by13 opinions

  1. Ottavia v. SavareseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1959
  2. Everett v. EdwardsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1889
  3. Mary Jane Stevens Co. v. First Nat. Bldg. Co.Utah Supreme Court · 1936
  4. Barry v. EdlavitchCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1896
  5. Ansin v. TaylorMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1928

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