Quigley v. Baker
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for obstructing an alleged right of way appurtenant to land in Chester. At the trial in the Superior Court, before jHopkins, J., the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff; and the defendant alleged exceptions, which appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtBarker, J.
When the plaintiff received his deed his grantor was the owner of a tract bounded in part upon the south by a highway. With the conveyance of the plaintiff’s lot was a grant of “ a right of way eighteen feet wide on the east of said lot to highway.” The south line of the plaintiff’s lot was some considerable distance from the highway. The plaintiff contends, and the jury have found by their verdict, that his right of way extended the whole length of the east line of his lot. The defendant contends that it extended only eighteen feet from the plaintiff’s southeast corner, and the defendant has…
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