Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1880

Hooper v. Farnsworth

Hooper v. Farnsworth
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided March 26, 1880
128 Mass. 487; 1880 Mass. LEXIS 127

Hooper v. Farnsworth

Opinion of the Court

By the Court.

The lease of the “store ” included the land under it and to the middle of the private way adjoining. Rogers v. Snow, 118 Mass. 118. Gear v. Barnum, 37 Conn. 229. Boston v. Richardson, 13 Allen, 146,154. Smith v. Howden, 14 C. B. (N. S.) 398. The whole of that land was rightly taxed, and the plaintiffs were bound by their covenant to pay the tax thereon.

Judgment affirmed.

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