The opinion
Field, C. J.
The paper recorded in the registry of deeds did not purport to convey to the defendant any interest in the land. It was a claim on his part to an equitable interest, but there is nothing in the statutes which requires or permits such a paper to be recorded in a registry of deeds, and it ought not to have been received and recorded. The finding contained in the report of the case, “ that the defendant had no interest in the land,” appears to be correct. Under our decisions the bill was properly dismissed. Nickerson v. Loud, 115 Mass. 94 . First African Methodist Episcopal Society v. Brown, 147 Mass. 296 .
Bill dismissed, without costs.