Bohlkin v. City of Portsmouth

The plaintiff here, and in the court below, lives on the north side of Randolph street in the city of Portsmouth between Fifth and Sixth streets, and nearly in front of Virginia street which runs parallel with Fifth street between it and Sixth street, and was . originally known as Cooke’s lane. This Virginia street runs south from Randolph and extends through two blocks, • terminating in Lincoln street. While recognized as a street by the defendant city, it is in fact a dirt lane fifteen feet in width, without sidewalks, paving, curbing or guttering,-with four small colored tenements fronting…