Inhabitants of Agawam v. County of Hampden

By the St. of 1873, c. 200, the county commissioners of Hampden county were authorized to lay out and construct a highway and bridge across the Connecticut River between the city of Springfield and the town of Agawam, and to estimate and award damages thereby occasioned in the same *529manner as provided by the general laws in the ease of laying out highways; and were directed, when such bridge and highway were completed, and the-full cost thereof ascertained, including all land damages, to file a report of the fact, together with the amount of such cost, in the office of the clerk of this court;…