Howe v. Tarvezian

This appeal is the fourth and perhaps final visit of the brothers George and Richard Tarvezian to this court in the prosecution of their long-running dispute over the partition and sale of a residential building in Watertown once owned by them as tenants in common (property). In the first chapter of litigation, Richard successfully petitioned the Probate and Family Court (Probate Court) for partition. A judge of that court appointed a commissioner, attorney Stephen W. Howe, to sell the property. George appealed. This court affirmed the final order of partition, a related order compelling…