Inhabitants of Gloucester v. County Commissioners
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition for a writ of certiorari to quash the proceedings of the county commissioners in the laying out of a town way in Gloucester.
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Petition for a writ of certiorari to quash the proceedings of the county commissioners in the laying out of a town way in Gloucester. The petition averred that in October, 1870, an application was made, upon the petition of Amos Story and others, to the selectmen of Gloucester, representing that the way from Cripple Cove, so called, to the house of Benjamin S. Brazier in East Gloucester, was narrow, crooked, indirect and inconvenient, and requesting the selectmen to widen and straighten it for a portion of the said way, and to lay out a new and more direct way for the other portion ; that the…
1Opinion of the CourtGray, C. J.
The board of county commissioners has the same power as any court to amend its records according to the truth, upon such evidence, documentary or oral, or recollections of any of its present members who took part in the original decision, as the board in its discretion may deem sufficient. Balch v. Shaw, 7 Cush. 282. Ellis v. County Commissioners, 2 Gray, 370. Andover v. County Commissioners, 5 Gray, 393. Farmington River Water Power Co. v. County Commissioners, 112 Mass.
Petition dismissed.
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