Inhabitants of Lunenburg v. Walter Heywood Chair Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for breaking and entering the plaintiff’s close. The case was submitted to the judgment of the Superior Court, and, after judgment for the defendant, to this court on appeal, upon an agreed statement of facts, the material part of so much of which as is not stated in the opinion was as follows: On April 11,1872, Cyrus Goodrich, by his deed of that date, conveyed to the defendant, a manufacturing corporation doing business in Fitchburg, all the standing growth of wood…
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Tort for breaking and entering the plaintiff’s close. The case was submitted to the judgment of the Superior Court, and, after judgment for the defendant, to this court on appeal, upon an agreed statement of facts, the material part of so much of which as is not stated in the opinion was as follows: On April 11,1872, Cyrus Goodrich, by his deed of that date, conveyed to the defendant, a manufacturing corporation doing business in Fitchburg, all the standing growth of wood and timber on two parcels of land in Lunenburg. The assessors of Lunenburg, for the year 1872, assessed the defendant as…
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, J.
We are of opinion that the deed from the collector of taxes to the plaintiff is invalid, because it does not comply with the requirements of the statute. The statute provides that the collector’s deed “ shall state the cause of sale, the price for which the estate or rents and profits were sold, the name of the person on whom the demand for the tax was made, the places in the city or town where the notices were posted, the newspaper in which the advertisement of such sale was published, and the place of residence of the grantee.” Gen. Sts. c. 12, § 85. The deed in this case states that the…
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