Salem Turnpike & Chelsea Bridge Corp. v. County of Essex
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition filed June 6, 1868, on the St. of 1868, c. 309, § 3, (which was enacted on the day previous,) for the appointment of commissioners to determine and award the amount to be paid to the petitioners, (whose turnpike, with its bridges, extended from Salem in the county of Essex to Chelsea in the county of Suffolk, crossing a portion of the county of Middlesex in its course,) and to the proprietors of Malden Bridge, (who took notice of the petition and joined in its…
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Petition filed June 6, 1868, on the St. of 1868, c. 309, § 3, (which was enacted on the day previous,) for the appointment of commissioners to determine and award the amount to be paid to the petitioners, (whose turnpike, with its bridges, extended from Salem in the county of Essex to Chelsea in the county of Suffolk, crossing a portion of the county of Middlesex in its course,) and to the proprietors of Malden Bridge, (who took notice of the petition and joined in its prayer,) as damages for the laying out of the turnpike and bridges as a public way under that statute. Notice of a hearing to…
1Opinion of the CourtChapman, C. J.
The petition in this case was filed under the St. of 1868, c. 309, by which it is enacted that the turnpike way, bridges, draws and piers, belonging to the said turnpike and bridge corporation, and lying in the cities of Salem, Lynn, Chelsea and Charlestown, and the towns of Saugus and North Chelsea, are laid out and shall become a public highway upon the acceptance of the award of commissioners to be appointed by this court or any justice thereof, and judgment thereon. Upon its becoming a highway, so much of it, excluding the abutments, bridges, draws and piers, as lies in each of said…
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