Bartlett v. Lee

Doe, 0. J.

The action for a traveller’s damages, under the highway act, is local. G. L., c. 75, s. 14. And this petition, being an incident of the action which the plaintiff proposes to bring, and within the reason of the law fixing the venue of the action, is, by implication, required to be brought in Strafford, the county in which the action mfist be entered.

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