Inhabitants of Sharon v. Smith
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity by the town of Sharon against the tree warden and deputy tree warden of that town to restrain them ' from removing the guideboards affixed by authority of the town to certain trees within the limits of a highway, filed October 31, 1900. ' At the trial in the Superior Court, before Sell, J., without a jury, the judge found as facts, that the trees to which the guide-boards were attached were public shade trees within St. 1899, c. 330, that the guideboards had…
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Bill in equity by the town of Sharon against the tree warden and deputy tree warden of that town to restrain them ' from removing the guideboards affixed by authority of the town to certain trees within the limits of a highway, filed October 31, 1900. ' At the trial in the Superior Court, before Sell, J., without a jury, the judge found as facts, that the trees to which the guide-boards were attached were public shade trees within St. 1899, c. 330, that the guideboards had been so attached for many years, and that the location of the guideboards on these trees had been approved and ratified…
1Opinion of the CourtHammond, J.
The statutes passed prior to 1887 with reference to guideposts, provided in substance that the selectmen or road commissioners of each town should submit to the inhabitants at the annual town meeting a report of all the places in which guideposts had been erected, and of all places at which in their opinion they ought to be erected ; that upon that report the town was to determine the several places at which such *541posts should be erected, “ which shall be recorded in the town records ”; and that at each of the places so determined a substantial post should be erected, with suitable boards with…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Chase v. City of LowellMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1889
3Cited by3 opinions
- Commonwealth v. MorrisonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1908
- Wright v. City of ChelseaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1911
- Hixon v. Inhabitants of SharonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1906