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Webster v. City of Lowell

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided July 3, 1886PublishedCited by 14 opinions

Petition to the Superior Court, by the administrator of the estate of Mary E. Webster, for a jury to assess the damages alleged -to have been occasioned to said estate by the discontinuance of a portion of Hanover Street in Lowell.

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Petition to the Superior Court, by the administrator of the estate of Mary E. Webster, for a jury to assess the damages alleged -to have been occasioned to said estate by the discontinuance of a portion of Hanover Street in Lowell. The petition alleged that said Mary E. Webster was, in her lifetime, and had been from July 10, 1875, seised and possessed of certain real estate, to wit, a certain parcel of land with the buildings thereon and the passageway appurtenant thereto, situated on the northeasterly side of Hanover Street, a public street in the city of Lowell, (then followed a…

1Opinion of the CourtField, J.

Hanover Street, which crosses Moody Street at a right angle, and which runs nearly north and south, at its northerly end was a cul de sac, and the city of Lowell discontinued a portion of it as a highway, measuring eighty-five and eight tenths feet southerly from the northerly end, so that, after the discontinuance, the northerly end of the street was a line drawn across the street from “ the southwesterly side of the Tremont and Suffolk Mills’ new storehouse, on the easterly side of said street.” The land of Mary E. Webster, of whose estate the petitioner is administrator, lies southerly of…

2Cases cited1 opinion

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  4. Munn v. City of BostonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1903
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