Patch v. City of Boston
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two petitions for juries to assess damages for the taking of land in Boston for a new court-house. The cases came on for trial together in the Superior Court, before Blodgett, J., who dismissed the first petition and allowed a bill of exceptions, which appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtC. Allen, J.
This was a petition to the Superior Court, setting forth that the petitioner was the owner of a parcel of land on Somerset Street in Boston; that the court-house commissioners appointed by the Mayor of Boston had taken said land for a court-house, under the St. of 1885, c. 377; that he had been offered by said commissioners a very much less sum than the damages sustained by him; and praying that his damages might be ascertained by a jury, at the bar of the Superior Court.
It appeared that the street commissioners also had made an award of damages for the same taking, with which the petitioner…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Miller v. EwingMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1850
- Chandler v. Jamaica Pond Aqueduct Corp.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1877
- Clement v. British American Assurance Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1886
- Allen v. City of BostonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1884
- City of Worcester v. County CommissionersMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1868
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3Cited by42 opinions
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- Thornton v. City of BirminghamSupreme Court of Alabama · 1948
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- Rubin v. Town of ArlingtonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1951
- Iris v. Town of HinghamMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1939
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