Chase v. City of Portland
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On motion and exceptions. This was a case in which the petitioners sought to recover from the city of Portland damages for alleged injury occasioned them as owners of certain land, with buildings thereon, on Commercial street in Portland by the raising of the street by the city in front of petitioners’ property during the months of June, July and August, 1891. Proceedings were commenced by the petitioners, September 7,1891, under the provisions of § 68 of c. 18 of Revised…
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On motion and exceptions. This was a case in which the petitioners sought to recover from the city of Portland damages for alleged injury occasioned them as owners of certain land, with buildings thereon, on Commercial street in Portland by the raising of the street by the city in front of petitioners’ property during the months of June, July and August, 1891. Proceedings were commenced by the petitioners, September 7,1891, under the provisions of § 68 of c. 18 of Revised Statutes as amended by chapter 97 of statute of 1887. Application was seasonably made to.the municipal officers of the…
1Opinion of the CourtWhitehouse, J.
The complainants represent that they are aggrieved by the refusal of the municipal officers of the city of Portland to award them damages for an injury alleged to have been sustained by reason of the raising of Commercial street on its southerly side adjoining their property, located at the head of Long Whai’f, and ask to have the damages determined by this court.
The statute under which this complaint is preferred (Stat. 1887, c. 97) provides that, "when a way or street is raised or lowered by a surveyor or person authorized, to the injury of an owner of land adjoining, he may apply in…
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