Snow v. City of Fitchburg
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition for a jury to revise an assessment, laid upon the petitioner’s estate by the city of Fitchburg, for the construction of a sewer. Trial in the Superior Court, before Staples, J., who directed a verdict for the respondent for the amount of the assessment, with interest; and reported the case for the determination of this court.
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Petition for a jury to revise an assessment, laid upon the petitioner’s estate by the city of Fitchburg, for the construction of a sewer. Trial in the Superior Court, before Staples, J., who directed a verdict for the respondent for the amount of the assessment, with interest; and reported the case for the determination of this court. If the rulings, which appear in the opinion, were correct, judgment was to be entered upon the verdict ; otherwise, a new trial was to be ordered.
1Opinion of the CourtColburn, J.
The objections to the rulings of the court, urged before us, in argument, were to the ruling that the assessment was to be made according to the value of the land exclusive of buildings, and to the ruling that the relative benefit which each estate on the line of the sewer might receive was of no consequence in determining the amount of the assessment to be laid on the petitioner’s estate.
The ruling that the assessment should be made according to the value of the land exclusive of buildings, was in accordance with the decisions of this court. Boston v. Shaw, 1 Met. 130. Downer v. Boston, 7…
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