TETRAULT v. BRUSCOE


398 Mass. 454 (1986)

497 N.E.2d 275

RICHARD R. TETRAULT & another vs. MICHAEL M. BRUSCOE & others (and two companion cases).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

September 12, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard R. Palmer, Assistant Attorney General, for the Attorney General & another.

Ernest P. DeSimone, Special Assistant Attorney General, for the Hampshire Division of the Probate and Family Court Department.

Edward E. Watson, for the plaintiffs, was present but did not argue.

Henry H. Thayer, for Massachusetts Conveyancers Association & another, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, LIACOS, ABRAMS, & LYNCH, JJ.


LIACOS, J.

Henry and Cloma W. Donnis filed a petition in the Land Court in 1968 to register and confirm their title to a parcel of land in Hatfield, Hampshire County. As abutting landowners, the defendants Michael M. Bruscoe and Dorothy M. Bruscoe were notified by registered mail of the Donnises' registration petition, G.L.c. 185, § 39 (1984 ed.). The Bruscoes made no objection to the petition and raised no claims with respect to the land sought to be registered...

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