Wellington v. City of Cambridge
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, filed on May 7,1908, against the city of Cambridge under St. 1903, c. 372, § 4, for the assessment by a jury of damages for injury to property of the petitioner from the construction of a bridge with a draw across the Lechmere Canal, so called, in continuation of the lines of the highway known as Commercial Avenue.
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Petition, filed on May 7,1908, against the city of Cambridge under St. 1903, c. 372, § 4, for the assessment by a jury of damages for injury to property of the petitioner from the construction of a bridge with a draw across the Lechmere Canal, so called, in continuation of the lines of the highway known as Commercial Avenue. At the trial in the Superior Court before Hitchcock, J., the jury found for the petitioner and assessed damages in the sum of $15,365.61. The respondent alleged exceptions, raising the questions stated in the opinion. A reduced copy of the plan there referred to is…
1Opinion of the CourtLoring, J.
This is a petition brought to recover compensation for injury done to the property of the petitioner by the construe*37tian of a bridge across Lechmere Canal, so called. The bridge was constructed by the respondent under St. 1903, c. 372.
Lechmere Canal is not a canal but a private dock. The statement of the facts contained in the bill of exceptions as to the original laying out and" construction of the dock is somewhat meagre. As we understand it the facts are these: At some time before October, 1834, a corporation by the name of the Proprietors of the Canal Bridge owned certain flats (situated…
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