Brackett v. Commonwealth

The first two of these cases are petitions brought for the assessment of damages alleged to have been sustained by the petitioners as lessee and owner respectively of property abutting on the Charles River above the Stadium or Anderson Bridge, caused by the construction of that bridge, built in accordance with St. 1911, c. 439. Upon these petitions commissioners were appointed by the Supreme Judicial Court for the county of Suffolk, to hear the parties and to assess their damages, whose award was returned into that court. The Commonwealth filed numerous exceptions to the report and moved to…