Howes v. Town of Barnstable

This is a bill in equity wherein the plaintiff seeks to enjoin continuing trespasses upon a sand flat in the waters of Barnstable Harbor and any interference with his private clam fishery therein, the assessment of damages for the carrying away of his personal property, and consequential damages for the injury to his clam fishery. The case was referred to a master and is before this court on the appeal of the plaintiff from an interlocutory decree overruling his objections to the master’s report and confirming said report, and from the final decree dismissing the bill.

The defendants took no…