Parker v. County of Norfolk
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition to the Superior Court for a jury to assess damages caused by the relocation of Walnut Street in Wellesley. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Barker, J., the jury returned a verdict in favor of the petitioners ; and the respondent alleged exceptions, the substance of which appears in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtC. Allen, J.
A petition dated in February, 1876, was presented to the county commissioners of the county of Norfolk for the relocation of Walnut Street as a county road, and the town of Wellesley, under an order or decree made by them on March 22, 1887, constructed the road as relocated. The respondent contended, at the trial, that the land claimed by the petitioners had already been taken, by virtue of an earlier location by the county commissioners made on July 17, 1876. It was admitted at the trial that the lines of the location of 1876 included the greater portion of the land now claimed by the…
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