Sawyer v. Commonwealth
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, filed June 15, 1899, of copartners doing business under the firm name H. 0. Sawyer and Company, alleging that on April 1, 1895, the petitioners owned an established business of dealers in general merchandise and of furnishing undertakers on land in the town of West Boylston, and that their business had been decreased in value and destroyed by the carrying out of St. 1895, c. 488. Commissioners appointed under the statute assessed the damages of the petitioners at…
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Petition, filed June 15, 1899, of copartners doing business under the firm name H. 0. Sawyer and Company, alleging that on April 1, 1895, the petitioners owned an established business of dealers in general merchandise and of furnishing undertakers on land in the town of West Boylston, and that their business had been decreased in value and destroyed by the carrying out of St. 1895, c. 488. Commissioners appointed under the statute assessed the damages of the petitioners at S3,250 including interest to the time of filing the report. The petitioners, being dissatisfied with the determination of…
1Opinion of the CourtHolmes, C. J.
This is a petition for the determination of damages caused by a decrease in value of the petitioners’ business, in consequence of the carrying out of the metropolitan water supply act. St. 1895, c. 488, § 14. After the decision in Sawyer v. Metropolitan Water Board, 178 Mass. 267, the case was referred to a commission upon the present petition, and the petitioners, being dissatisfied with the determination, again claim a trial by jury — this time under § 15 of the act. The *247material words are as follows: “ Said water board, or any persons whose property is taken under the right of eminent…
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