Curtis v. Goodwin
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, filed in the Land Court on October 15, 1917, by Greely S. Curtis, as the successor in title of Isaac C. Wyman, for the registration of his title to two parcels of land in Marble-head, only the first of which was claimed by the respondents. The answer of the respondents set up a title by adverse possession in the respondents as the successors of Benjamin F. Goodwin to the first of the two parcels of land described in the petition.
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Petition, filed in the Land Court on October 15, 1917, by Greely S. Curtis, as the successor in title of Isaac C. Wyman, for the registration of his title to two parcels of land in Marble-head, only the first of which was claimed by the respondents. The answer of the respondents set up a title by adverse possession in the respondents as the successors of Benjamin F. Goodwin to the first of the two parcels of land described in the petition. The case was heard by Corbett, J. The material evidence is described in substance in the opinion. The evidence of the conversation of Benjamin F. Goodwin…
1Opinion of the CourtDe Courcy, J.
This is a petition to register the title to two parcels of land situated in Marblehead. The Land Court entered *540a decree for the petitioner. The exceptions of the respondents relate only to parcel number one, the record title to which is in the petitioner.
The principal contention of the respondents is that Benjamin F. Goodwin,, under whom the respondents claim, entered into possession of the locus under an oral agreement for the purchase thereof, that he performed his part of the contract more than twenty years before the filing of the petition for registration, and that he has acquired title…
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