Sheehan v. City of Fitchburg

These are actions to recover the amounts severally assessed on the plaintiffs as owners oí estates abutting on Water, First and Railroad Streets in Fitchburg, as their proportional part of the charge of constructing sewers in said streets, which were paid by the plaintiffs after notice of sale of their estates, and after protest.

The plaintiff Sheehan’s and the plaintiff Harrigan’s estates abut on the street near that part of the sewer in Water Street, constructed in 1871 and 1872; the plaintiff McCarty’s estate abuts on First Street, the sewer in which was constructed in 1871 and 1872 ; that…