STATE STREET BANK & TRUST CO. v. BEALE


353 Mass. 103 (1967)

227 N.E.2d 924

STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY & another, trustees, vs. RAYMOND E. BEALE.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Plymouth.

July 5, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gael Mahony (William L. Payson, Walter N. Kernan, Richard S. Chute, & Joseph D. Steinfield with him) for the plaintiffs.

Henry S. Levin (B. Robert Levin with him) for the defendant.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., SPALDING, KIRK, SPIEGEL, & REARDON, JJ.


SPALDING, J.

The objective of this bill in equity, brought in the Land Court, is to impose a constructive trust in favor of the plaintiffs on a parcel of land in Rockland (the locus) which, it is alleged, the defendant fraudulently caused to be registered in his name.

The averments of the bill may be summarized as follows: The plaintiffs were the owners of the locus, a twenty-five acre parcel of woodland. The defendant, knowing of their ownership, or claim...

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