Gray v. City of Boston

It is recited in the exceptions that this is an action of tort to recover compensation for damages growing out of an alleged taking of land by the defendant for a station on the East Boston tunnel, and that such *167damages arose from the careless way in which the defendant carried on the work of constructing the station and from the negligence of the servants and agents of the defendant in occupying and using premises of the plaintiff and in moving and handling his property, whereby injury resulted to personal property and the business of the plaintiff. The declaration alleged negligence of the…