Board of Selectmen of Brewster v. Sparrow

Even after argument we do not know why the selectmen or their counsel thought it necessary to bring the present separate action (No. 38792) in order to establish their standing to contest the titles of the present defendants to the parcels which are designated as “Owners Unknown” in the 1970 order of taking and which are supposedly involved in the original action (No. 35287). We do know that the judgment in the present action is in error because the selectmen do have standing to contest the titles to the parcels in dispute (see Prentice v. Worcester, 129 Mass. 559, 568 [1880]; Emery v. Boston…