McGovern v. City of Salem

This is an action to recover for work done and materials furnished in the construction of a “force main sewer” under the waters of the harbor of Salem in this Commonwealth. The sewer when finished comprised a continuous water-tight line of sewer pipe about nine thousand feet in length running, buried in a trench under the bottom of the harbor, from a pumping station on shore to an outlet some distance beyond the mouth of the harbor. It was intended to serve as a water-tight conduit through which the sewage of the defendant city and of the adjacent town of Peabody was to be forced by pumps…