Dickenson v. Inhabitants of Fitchburg
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Appeal by both parties from the acceptance by the superior court of the verdict of a sheriff’s jury empanelled to assess the damages occasioned to the petitioners by taking their land for the purpose of widening and altering a portion of the highway called Main Street, leading through the village of Fitchburg.
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Appeal by both parties from the acceptance by the superior court of the verdict of a sheriff’s jury empanelled to assess the damages occasioned to the petitioners by taking their land for the purpose of widening and altering a portion of the highway called Main Street, leading through the village of Fitchburg. The certificate of the sheriff stated the following rulings : 1. “ At the time this petition was filed, the petitioners presented another petition, in which they set forth that the respondents altered the grade of a highway adjoining their land; that they were aggrieved at the…
1Opinion of the CourtShaw, C. J.
This case arose thus: A narrow strip of the petitioner’s land having been taken by competent authority, to widen a highway called Main Street in the village of Fitchburg, they applied to the county commissioners to issue a warrant for a sheriff’s jury to assess their damages.
1. It is admitted that the proceedings in the case were regular, unless it was irregular for the commissioners to send this and another petition of the same applicants, for damage to their estate, to the same jury. No special reason is assigned in the present case why the two petitions, between the same parties, for two…
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