Corey v. Inhabitants of Wrentham
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract, to recover damages awarded by road commissioners in laying out town ways. The case was submitted to the Superior Court, and, after judgment for the defendant, to this court, on appeal, upon agreed facts, which appear in the opinion. The case was argued at the bar in March, 1895, and afterwards was submitted on the briefs to all the judges.
1Opinion of the CourtBarker, J.
The action is for damages awarded by road commissioners in laying out town ways. The award is the same which the town unsuccessfully sought to have revised by a jury in Wrentham v. Corey, 159 Mass. 93, in which case the court declined to say whether the ways were legally laid out. The town now contends that they were not legally established, and that, if *19they were, this action must fail for the reason that no entry and possession have been taken for the purpose of constructing the ways.
It is agreed that the plaintiffs, owners of a tract of land in Wrentham, about the year 1886, laid out and…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Letton v. YoungCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1859
- Pickford v. Mayor & Aldermen of LynnMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1868
- City of Cambridge v. County CommissionersMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1875
- Parker v. County of NorfolkMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1890
- Wrentham v. CoreyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1893
3Cited by6 opinions
- Willcox v. EdwardsCalifornia Supreme Court · 1912
- Main v. County of PlymouthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1916
- Webb Granite & Construction Co. v. City of WorcesterMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1905
- Everett v. City of Fall RiverMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1905
- Munroe v. City of WoburnMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1915
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