Boston Chamber of Commerce v. City of Boston
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, filed in the Superior Court for the county of Suffolk, on February 17,1902, under R. L. e. 48, § 27, by the Boston Chamber of Commerce, the Boston Five Cents Savings Bank .and the Central Wharf and Wet Dock Corporation for the assessment of damages, the petitioners being aggrieved by the refusal of the street commissioners of the city of Boston to award any damages to the petitioners for the taking of part of their property for the extension of Milk Street in…
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Petition, filed in the Superior Court for the county of Suffolk, on February 17,1902, under R. L. e. 48, § 27, by the Boston Chamber of Commerce, the Boston Five Cents Savings Bank .and the Central Wharf and Wet Dock Corporation for the assessment of damages, the petitioners being aggrieved by the refusal of the street commissioners of the city of Boston to award any damages to the petitioners for the taking of part of their property for the extension of Milk Street in Boston. The petitioners filed in court the following stipulation, which was not assented to by the respondent: “ In the above…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
On March 21,1901, the Boston Chamber of Commerce owned in fee certain property, consisting of more than fifteen thousand square feet of land, on which it had erected a building for its own purposes. This land was acquired in January, 1890, in part from Henry M. Whitney and in part from the Central Wharf and Wet Dock Corporation. In the deed from this corporation there was a reservation of rights of way, light and air over a part of the premises described by metes and bounds, and containing thirty-five hundred and thirty-nine square feet. The boundary of one side of this reserved space is a…
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