Estes v. City of Newton

This is a petition to revise a betterment assessment of $3,208.92, levied by the respondent under St. 1917, c. 344, Part III, on land of the petitioner on Algonquin Road in the city of Newton, for the laying out of that road as a public way. It appears from the record that Algonquin Road is a street leading in a northerly direction from Commonwealth Avenue in Newton, near the Boston line, circling around the side of a steep hill called Waban Hill “and coming to a stop at a dead end.” The property of the petitioner is located on the lower side of the way. The street as completed had throughout…