Curtis v. Francis
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Writ of entry, dated December 30th, 1839, to recover a portion of a wharf and flats, “ bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a point on Sea street, in Boston, on the line which divides the land of said Curtis from the land of said Francis; thence running southeasterly to land of Thomas B. Wales, at a point on the northeasterly side of Wales’s wharf, distant about three hundred and ninety feet from said Sea street; then turning and running more easterly by land of…
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Writ of entry, dated December 30th, 1839, to recover a portion of a wharf and flats, “ bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a point on Sea street, in Boston, on the line which divides the land of said Curtis from the land of said Francis; thence running southeasterly to land of Thomas B. Wales, at a point on the northeasterly side of Wales’s wharf, distant about three hundred and ninety feet from said Sea street; then turning and running more easterly by land of said Wales two hundred and sixty feet; then turning a right angle, and running northerly eighty-five feet; then turning,…
1Opinion of the CourtDewey, J.
The premises in controversy, with a much larger tract adjacent, were formerly the property of Jabez Hatch, under whom both parties derive title; the demand-ant, under a title of earlier date, being by virtue of a deed from Hatch to John Curtis and Thomas Ridley, bearing date September 28th, 1811, and a subsequent deed conveying, to Curtis, Ridley’s interest in the estate thus conveyed; the tenant, under a deed from Jabez Hatch to David Moody, bearing date February 23d, 1814, and by subsequent conveyances by the grantee, and those holding under him, to the tenant, The parties before us are the…
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