Selectmen of Norwood
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two petitions, filed respectively September 22 and November 24, 1890, under St. 1890, c. 428, by the selectmen of the town of Norwood and by the directors of the New York and New England Railroad Company, for the appointment of a commission to consider the abolition of the grade crossings at Washington, Guild and Chapel Streets and at Railroad Avenue in Norwood, consolidated and heard together as one petition.
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Two petitions, filed respectively September 22 and November 24, 1890, under St. 1890, c. 428, by the selectmen of the town of Norwood and by the directors of the New York and New England Railroad Company, for the appointment of a commission to consider the abolition of the grade crossings at Washington, Guild and Chapel Streets and at Railroad Avenue in Norwood, consolidated and heard together as one petition. In the Superior Court Mason, C. J. made a decree from which the town of Norwood appealed as stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtLoring, J.
This case comes up on an appeal taken by the selectmen of Norwood from a decree of the Superior Court, confirming with certain modifications the seventh report of the auditor.
The only matters dealt with in that report of the auditor are items presented for allowance as part of the joint expense to be paid by the town, the railroad and the Commonwealth under St. 1890, c. 428, § 3.
The principles on which the question of including or not in-eluding such items is to be decided have been settled in the .cases of Boston & Albany Railroad v. Charlton, 161 Mass. 32, and Providence & Worcester…
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