Barnes v. City of Springfield

The cause of action here involved is a petition for the assessment of damages for the taking of land by the defendant under the authority of St. 1906, c. 317. After decision on exceptions taken at the trial, 268 Mass. 497, the respondent, as shown by the docket entries attached to the record in the case at bar, filed a request to be heard on the taxation of costs, and later, a motion that the case be set down for hearing upon the allowance and taxation of costs. This was proper practice. Subsequently there was entered by the trial judge an *286“ Order as to Costs under Authority of Acts 1906, Ch.…