Starrett v. Inhabitants of Thomaston

On the twenty-seventh day of July, 1924, the municipal officers of the town of Thomaston presented to the State Highway Commission and to the County Commissioners of Knox county a petition for state and county aid in the building or rebuilding of a bridge over Mill River in that town. In that petition those municipal officers certified that public convenience and necessity required the building or rebuilding of the bridge, that it was located on a main travelled thoroughfare leading from Thomaston to Rock-land, and locally known as the Main Street Road. In their petition it was alleged that…