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Marblehead home razed after 18-year legal battle

By Brian MacQuarrie

 |  Globe Staff  

  February 22, 2012

In the end, the giant claw of an oversize backhoe needed only hours to do what 18 years of litigation, hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees, and a bottomless well of angst and acrimony had been unable to accomplish before yesterday. Beginning about 7:15 a.m., by court order, Wayne Johnson’s 5,000-square-foot, million-dollar house overlooking Marblehead Harbor finally came tumbling down. Johnson, a financial adviser in his 70s, is moving to a rental apartment in Salem.

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