Commonwealth v. Boston & Albany Railroad

Indictment for obstructing a highway in Chester. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Sherman, J., the following facts were agreed. The road, of which the alleged highway in question was a part, extended in a generally easterly direction from Blandíord to Chester, but from the top of Smith Hill, so called, in Chester, it ran in a direction somewhat north of east until, after crossing the defendant’s railroad at grade, it joined the old Springfield and Albany turnpike road, which at that point was east of the railroad and parallel with it, and connected Chester Factories and Huntington.…