Boston, Worcester & New York Street Railway Co. v. Commonwealth

This is a petition to recover against the Commonwealth the sum of $363,306 and interest alleged to be due under a purported contract in writing between the petitioner and the Commonwealth bearing date April 11, 1932.

The alleged contract is executed in behalf of the Commonwealth by the department of public works. It recites that the department has laid out and taken charge of “the Worcester Turnpike, so called,” in Framingham, Natick, Wellesley and Newton, and contemplates the laying out and taking charge of an extension easterly into the town of Brookline; that the “Company” (petitioner) has…