Nickerson v. Nickerson
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, filed in the Land Court on November 8, 1918, for the registration of the title to about twenty-six and one half acres of land at Pleasant Bay and Fourside Harbor in Chatham, occupied by the federal government as an aviation station under a lease and an agreement of sale made by the petitioner.
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Petition, filed in the Land Court on November 8, 1918, for the registration of the title to about twenty-six and one half acres of land at Pleasant Bay and Fourside Harbor in Chatham, occupied by the federal government as an aviation station under a lease and an agreement of sale made by the petitioner. The petition was heard by Davis, J. It appeared that one Nickerson owned the land at the time of his death, intestate, in 1847. After his death a portion of it was set off as dower to his widow and, through partition proceedings, the rest of it, exclusive of the rev'ersionary interests in the…
1Opinion of the CourtCarroll, J.
This is a petition to register a tract of land at Pleasant Bay and Fourside Harbor in the town of Chatham, the land in question being a portion of the Nickerson farm purchased by Jesse Nickerson, the petitioner’s "grandfather, in 1826. Jesse Nickerson died intestate in 1847, leaving a widow and six children, — three daughters and three sons. The daughters were married, their husbands were living, and children had been born to them. Partition was made in the Probate Court among the six children, of all the real estate of which Jesse died seised, except the reversion of the northeasterly…
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