# Leeds v. Wheeler

> Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · June 24, 1892 · 157 Mass. 67

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/6424288

## Case

- **Full name:** Richard Leeds & another v. Mason O. Wheeler
- **Court:** Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
- **Decided:** June 24, 1892
- **Citations:** 157 Mass. 67; 31 N.E. 709; 1892 Mass. LEXIS 20
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Opinion of the court by Field
- **Judges:** Field
- **Cited by:** 3 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

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.

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