Grimshaw v. City of Fall River

This is a petition to the Superior Court for a jury to assess the damages occasioned to the petitioner’s land by the laying out of Beacon Street in Fall River. The petition is in the nature of an appeal from a finding by the city council that the petitioner had suffered no damage. At the trial, the respondent moved that the petition be dismissed on the ground that, under the Pub. Sts. c. 49, § 91, and the charter of the respondent, (St. 1885, c. 269, § 19,) the Superior Court had not *484jurisdiction, and the petition should be to 'the county, commissioners. This motion was overruled, the jury…