Dodge v. Boston & Providence Railroad
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in this court for specific performance. Field, C. J. dismissed the bill; and the plaintiff appealed to the full court. The case was argued at the bar in January, 1891, and after-wards, in September following, was submitted on the briefs to all the judges except Holmes, J.
1Opinion of the CourtLathrop, J.
This is a bill in equity, filed on February 23, 1888, for specific performance of an agreement alleged to have been made by the defendant, in 1836, with John C. Dodge, the plaintiff’s grandfather. The case was heard before a single justice of this court, upon the pleadings and evidence, and comes before us on the plaintiff’s appeal from a decree dismissing the bill.
From the evidence it appears that the defendant corporation, on December 23, 1833, took by the right of eminent domain a parcel of land belonging to John C. Dodge in the town of Attleborough, and, having constructed its road over…
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