Garvin v. Dean
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Writ oe entry. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Aldrich, J., the jury found for the demandants, and the tenant excepted to the refusal of the presiding judge to rule as requested by him. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtGray, C. J.
The deed to the demandants describes the boundaries of the easterly end of the lots conveyed as follows : Beginning at an ascertained point at the southeasterly corner, “ thence northerly bounded easterly by land of this grantor to the highway leading from Northampton to Florence; thence northwesterly bounded northeasterly by said highway to land of Jonathan A. Clark.” The matter in controversy is the course of the first of these two lines, and the consequent length of the second.
The tenant contended that the first line was to run as nearly north as possible consistently with any boundary…
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