DOYLE v. COMMONWEALTH


444 Mass. 686 (2005)

JoDEE C. DOYLE, trustee, vs. COMMONWEALTH & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

July 20, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeremiah W. Doyle, IV, for the plaintiff.

Jeanne S. McKnight (Shirin Everett with her) for town of Salisbury.

James A. Sweeney, Assistant Attorney General, for the Commonwealth.

Andrew A. Caffrey, Jr., for Heidi A. Connolly, was present but did not argue.

Michael P. Healy, for Real Estate Bar Association & another, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., GREANEY, IRELAND, SPINA, SOSMAN, & CORDY, JJ.


CORDY, J.

This case concerns the authority of a Land Court judge to examine the validity of a previously issued certificate of title to registered land. In 1992, the plaintiff JoDee C. Doyle, trustee of Four Ninety-Four NEB Realty Trust (trust), acquired from Salisbury Beach Associates an oceanfront parcel of registered land in Salisbury, depicted on a 1920 plan as a "paper street." The trust obtained a transfer certificate of title from an assistant recorder in the...

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