City of Boston v. Richardson

Gray, J.*

This is a writ of entry, brought by the city of Boston to recover the fee of a strip of land thirty feet wide, extending eastwardly from the foot of Summer Street in Boston, and below the original line of high water mark. The tenant pleaded the general issue.

It was proved at the trig] that the tenant owned the land and flats on each side of the demanded premises, and had the title which Richard Gridley and Nicholas Baxter had more than two centuries ago in lands bounded on the street, and thus described in the original Book of Possessions of the town of Boston :

“ Richard Gridley, his…