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83 Mass. 198

Whitney v. Lee

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided January 15, 1861

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1861-01-15

Three actions of tort for obstructions to a right of way. The .following facts were agreed: Thomas B; Wales and others, trustees, under whom both parties claimed, conveyed to P. S. Briggs the whole of lot No. 43 on Monument Square, Charlestown, with the right to use a certain private passage way over the adjoining lots, Nos. 42 and 41, to Chestnut Street.

Decided 1861-01-15

Chapman, J.

¶1As these cases come before the court upon an agreed statement of facts, the questions argued for the defendants in respect to the pleadings are immaterial, for the agreement supersedes such questions. The plaintiff’s close is part of a larger one to which the way in question was made appurtenant by the deeds under which the parties hold their respective titles. A way appurtenant to a close is appurtenant to every parcel into which the close may be divided. Underwood v. Carney, 1 Cush. 285.

¶2The plaintiff’s close is that part of the original one to which the way leads, and is the only part in connection with which it can now be used. As the defendant has obstructed it, judgment must be rendered for the plaintiff; the damages to be nominal

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