Dwyer v. Metropolitan District Commission

This is a petition for a writ of mandamus to require the respondents, who constitute the metropolitan district commission, to grant- to the petitioner an entrance from Fellsway West, in Medford, to her land. The case is before this court upon exceptions to a ruling and order made by a single justice, in accordance with which an order was entered dismissing the petition. The case was heard upon the petition, answer, auditor’s report and supplemental report.

On March 24, 1899, Ralph K. Abbott and others, predecessors in title to the petitioner, conveyed to the Commonwealth a strip of land…