Gorton v. Schofield

This is a bill in equity by which the plaintiff seeks to compel the defendant to rebuild or repair a retaining wall on the defendant’s land which provides lateral support to the plaintiff’s land. The judge entered an interlocutory decree overruling the defendant’s exceptions to the master’s report and confirming the same, and a final decree ordering the defendant to “provide adequate support to the plaintiff’s land, at the rear thereof, adjoining the retaining wall ... by strengthening the said retaining wall now existing, or by any other effective means which will provide adequate support to…