Wonson v. Wonson
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition to this court under St. 1864, c. 306, by William C. Wonson and James Davis for the division of flats in Coos’s Cove in the harbor of Gloucester. The petitioners alleged that they were respectively seised of adjoining parcels of land and flats in that cove, together with the buildings and wharves thereon, bounded and described as in the petition.
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Petition to this court under St. 1864, c. 306, by William C. Wonson and James Davis for the division of flats in Coos’s Cove in the harbor of Gloucester. The petitioners alleged that they were respectively seised of adjoining parcels of land and flats in that cove, together with the buildings and wharves thereon, bounded and described as in the petition. The material part of the description of said Wonson’s estate (after describing its boundaries upon the upland) was as follows : “ The width of said parcel, from the land of Davis to the land of Samuel Wonson, (the point begun at,) being one…
1Opinion of the CourtGray, J.
By the well known colonial ordinance of 1647, “ it is declared, that in all creeks, coves and other places about and upon salt water, where the sea ebbs and flows, the proprietor of the land adjoining shall have propriety to the low water mark, where the sea doth not ebb above a hundred rods, and not more wheresoever it ebbs further: provided that such proprietor shall not by this liberty have power to stop or hinder the passage of boats or other vessels in or through any sea, creeks or coves to other men’s houses or lands.” By this ordinance, the general court, almost upon the first…
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