RONAN, J.
This is a bill in equity brought in behalf of the town of Wakefield by a committee appointed at a town meeting to obtain a determination of the nature of the title of the town in the town hall premises which were given to it in 1871 by Cyrus Wakefield. The bill designated "the heirs of Cyrus Wakefield" as the defendants. They were unknown and service of process was made by publication. They did not appear and the bill was taken as confessed against them...
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