Kenney v. Consumers' Gas Co.

The first of these cases is a bill in equity, brought by a private individual against the Consumers’ Gas Company and one Smith, under whose direction the work was prosecuted, to restrain the defendants from digging up Terrace Street in Boston, in front of the plaintiff’s brewery, for the purpose of laying gas-pipes. The only averments of damage to the plaintiff are, that he requires, for the convenient transaction of his business, the full use of the street in the neighborhood of his brewery for the going and coming of loaded teams to convey the products of his brewery; that on May 12, 1885,…