Manchester v. Hodge
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Case, for obstructing a private way. Transferred from the May term, 1907, of the superior court by Stone, J., upon an agreed statement of facts. The plaintiff city and the defendants derive title from the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company.
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Case, for obstructing a private way. Transferred from the May term, 1907, of the superior court by Stone, J., upon an agreed statement of facts. The plaintiff city and the defendants derive title from the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company. In 1841 that corporation deeded a tract of land to the city for a public cemetery, the material part of the conveyance being as follows: “ Thence westerly . . . to Willow street; thence northerly on the easterly line of Willow street thirteen hundred feet, said line being parallel to and two hundred and seventy-five feet easterly of the east line of Elm…
1Opinion of the CourtYoung, J.
The deed to the city bounds the cemetery on the west by the easterly line of Willow street, and says that it is a line “ parallel to and two hundred and seventy-five feet easterly of the east line of Elm street.” If this language is given its ordinary meaning, Willow street had been surveyed at that time. The defendants contend, however, that since the case does not show when the Amoskeag Company surveyed this part of their land, it must be held that the parties intended to bound the cemetery on the west by a line two hundred and seventy-five feet easterly of the east line of Elm street.…
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