Merrill v. Selectmen of Saugus

This is an appeal from a judgment dismissing a petition for a writ of certiorari brought by a landowner against the selectmen of the town of Saugus for the purpose of quashing the action of the respondents in purporting to take an easement in his land for the purpose of a public way together with an easement for a slope in land adjoining the boundaries of the land taken.

At an adjournment of the annual town meeting held on April 6, 1953, it was unanimously voted that the town purchase or take by eminent domain for the purposes of a highway “a strip of land approximately 400 feet long and 40…