Old Colony Street Railway Co. v. Phillips
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, filed in the Land Court on February 4, 1907, for the registration of the title to certain flats at Quincy Point, so called, in Quincy, represented as within the lines W X Z Y on a plan annexed to the bill of exceptions, a copy of which is printed on the opposite page. The case was heard in the Land Court by Davis, J. It appeared that in the year 1834 one Jenkins was the owner of certain upland and flats shown on the plan.
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Petition, filed in the Land Court on February 4, 1907, for the registration of the title to certain flats at Quincy Point, so called, in Quincy, represented as within the lines W X Z Y on a plan annexed to the bill of exceptions, a copy of which is printed on the opposite page. The case was heard in the Land Court by Davis, J. It appeared that in the year 1834 one Jenkins was the owner of certain upland and flats shown on the plan. The judge found that the easterly boundary of the land and flats owned by Jenkins was the line marked “Vinai-Jenkins Line,” that is, the line CD, and that Jenkins,…
1Opinion of the CourtHammond, J.
This is a petition for the registration of title to certain flats in Quincy ; and the case is before us upon exceptions taken by the petitioner to the ruling of the Land Court that the passageway named in the deed from Jenkins to Jones “ was intended to be a way by water from the creek out to the river,” and to the order that “ the title to petitioner’s flats be registered 1 subject to a right in favor of the Phillips estate as recited in ’ ” that deed. The flats are shown upon a plan annexed to the bill *179of exceptions, and the bill recites that reference may be made to it as well as to all…
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