Coffin v. Lawrence
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Writ of entry to recover a parcel of land in Nantucket. Trial in the Superior Court, before Bacon, J., who directed a verdict for the tenant; and the demandants alleged exceptions. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, C. J.
The demandants’ title is derived from Henry-Coffin. To show his title, they put in evidence a vote of the proprietors of the common and undivided lands of the island of Nantucket, passed January 25, 1886. It is not disputed that such proprietors might grant land by a vote, instead of a deed. See Mitchell v. Starbuck, 10 Mass. 5; Springfield v. Miller, 12 Mass. 415; Folger v. Mitchell, 3 Pick. 396. But the tenant contends that the vote on which the demandants rely was invalid, because it did not follow and conform to the call or warrant for the meeting at which it was passed.
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