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DEVINE v. NANTUCKET

16 Mass. App. Ct. 548 (1983)

452 N.E.2d 1167

WILLIAM J. DEVINE & another, trustees, vs. TOWN OF NANTUCKET.

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

August 24, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John H. Wyman for the plaintiffs.

Charles A. Goglia, Jr., for the defendant.

Present: HALE, C.J., ARMSTRONG, & KASS, JJ.

KASS, J.

George R. Stimpson, an owner of land on Nantucket, failed to pay his real estate taxes in 1896, and the town acquired title to seven lots (containing fifteen and a half acres) through a tax sale in 1898. Eighty-two years later, in 1980, Devine and Darman paid $200 to Stimpson's heirs for a quitclaim deed of those lots3 and brought an action in the Land Court asserting flaws in...

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