Bartlett v. City of Bangor
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On agreed statement. Appeals from decisions of the city council of Bangor, on the question of damages for laying out a street in extension of First street. The proceed ings are all admitted to be correct. The title of the appellants, as tenants in common, of the premises taken, is not called in question, except as hereinafter stated. All claim under the will of the late Wm.
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On agreed statement. Appeals from decisions of the city council of Bangor, on the question of damages for laying out a street in extension of First street. The proceed ings are all admitted to be correct. The title of the appellants, as tenants in common, of the premises taken, is not called in question, except as hereinafter stated. All claim under the will of the late Wm. Emerson, who died in 1860. The premises were formerly the property of Isaac Davenport, and constituted a part of the lot which contained in all nearly two hundred acres, bounded upon Penobscot river on the east, and…
1Opinion of the CourtWalton, J.
First street in the city of Bangor, as originally laid out, in' 1829, by the then owner of the land, extended southwesterly from Union street to Cedar street, and across Cedar street into the adjoining territory, as indicated upon the diagram.
That portion of First street lying between Union and Cedar streets was laid out and accepted by the city in 1836. That portion of it lying southwesterly of Cedar street was laid out and accepted by the city in 1875. The only question is whether the owners of the land thus taken for the extension of First street, in 1875, are, under the circumstances…
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