Blanchard v. Inhabitants of Ayer
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract for labor done and materials furnished in making repairs upon a highway in the defendant town. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Mason, J., evidence was introduced tending to prove the following facts.
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Contract for labor done and materials furnished in making repairs upon a highway in the defendant town. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Mason, J., evidence was introduced tending to prove the following facts. The county commissioners of Middlesex, on November 3, 1885, duly ordered repairs to be made on the Mitchellville bridge over the Nashua River, and forming part of the highway between Ayer and Shirley, and the abutments to be rebuilt, each town to rebuild the abutmeht within its limits. The defendant town, at its annual meeting in 1886, duly voted that a certain sum of money…
1Opinion of the CourtW. Allen, J.
The action is to recover the value of work done and materials furnished by the plaintiff upon a highway in the defendant town, under an oral contract with the selectmen and highway surveyors of the defendant. There was no act or vote of the defendant affecting the matter, except the election of selectmen and making them highway surveyors. If the contract related to the building of abutments ordered by the county commissioners, neither the selectmen nor the highway surveyors had authority to expend money or to make any contract for the work. Bean v. Hyde Park, 143 Mass. 245. The plaintiff…
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- Bean v. Inhabitants of Hyde ParkMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1887
- Clark v. Inhabitants of RussellMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1875
- McCormick v. City of BostonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1876
- Curran v. Inhabitants on HollistonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1881
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