Munn v. City of Boston
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, filed April 27, 1900, for assessment of damages to the real estate of the petitioner from the locating anew and construction of Lauriat Avenue in Boston.
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Petition, filed April 27, 1900, for assessment of damages to the real estate of the petitioner from the locating anew and construction of Lauriat Avenue in Boston. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Sherman, J. It was agreed that the necessary expense incurred by the petitioner in changing the grade of Johnson Terrace to connect with Lauriat Avenue was $60, and it was further agreed, that by the laying out, locating anew and construction of Lauriat Avenue, the rental value of the petitioner’s estate was decreased to the amount of $500, she having lost rents to that amount which…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
This is a petition for the assessment of damages caused to the petitioner’s estate by the laying out, locating anew and constructing of a highway named Lauriat Avenue, in the city of Boston. The owners of land adjacent to Lauriat Avenue had previously laid it out in building lots along a private way called Johnson Terrace, which they established, leading southerly from Lauriat Avenue nearly at right angles to it. In selling the lots along Johnson Terrace, they bounded the grantees on this private way, and thereby gave them severally an easement of a right to travel over it to and from Lauriat…
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