Murphy v. Inhabitants of Gloucester

It appears from the bill of exceptions, that, at the trial, there was evidence tending to prove the following facts: The plaintiff was travelling on foot, on Commercial Street, in Gloucester, on a rainy, foggy and dark evening in May 1869; while thus travelling, he passed out of the limits of the highway, and fell into a dock some distance north of the northerly line of the. street; the land between the dock and the street was on a level with the street; there were no monuments, curbstones or indications, other than those of the ordinary and usual course of travel, of the boundary between…