Main v. County Commissioners
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on May 9,1911, and afterwards amended, for a writ of certiorari to quash the action of the respondents in regard to the following petition: “Respectfully represent the undersigned residents of Plymouth and Bristol Counties that the town road leading from a point on the State Road near the Keyes Memorial Chapel in South Wareham via Bearing’s Hill and Blackmore Pond to its junction with the Plymouth to Sippecan county road near the…
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Petition, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on May 9,1911, and afterwards amended, for a writ of certiorari to quash the action of the respondents in regard to the following petition: “Respectfully represent the undersigned residents of Plymouth and Bristol Counties that the town road leading from a point on the State Road near the Keyes Memorial Chapel in South Wareham via Bearing’s Hill and Blackmore Pond to its junction with the Plymouth to Sippecan county road near the residence of Jerome Dean, as also the ancient way, from a point near the dwelling of Nathaniel White to Barlow’s…
1Opinion of the CourtSheldon, J.
As the county commissioners do not appear to have granted the prayers of the petition “that a new layout be established at the Ox Bow Bend near the farmhouse of Dr. Maurice H. Richardson,” and to “mark by stone bounds the limits of Barlow’s Landing,” we need not consider the nature or effect of either of these prayers. The rest of the petition represented that two ways therein mentioned, one called a town way and the other an ancient way, were crooked and narrow and had undefined limits; and asked the commissioners “to lay out a county highway over the route aforesaid.” In effect the petition…
2Cases cited8 opinions
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- Stockwell v. Inhabitants of FitchburgMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1872
- Bennett v. WellesleyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1905
- Inhabitants of Watertown v. County Commissioners of MiddlesexMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1900
- Livermore v. County of NorfolkMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1904
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- Haile v. Sagadahoc County CommissionersSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1943