Lord v. City of Saco
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On report. This was an action on the case to recover for injuries to the plaintiff’s horse, caused as alleged by a defective highway. Claim for damages: Sawyer v. Naples, 66 Maine, 455. Nature of injuries : Blaclcington v. Rockland, 66 Maine, 233 ; Goodwin v. Gardiner, 84 Maine, 280. Location of defect: Blackington v. Rockland, supra; Bradbury v. Benton, 69 Maine, 194; Hubbard v. Fayette, 70 Maine, 121; Chapman v. Nobleboro, 76 Maine, 430 ; Goodwin v. Gardiner, supra.
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On report. This was an action on the case to recover for injuries to the plaintiff’s horse, caused as alleged by a defective highway. Claim for damages: Sawyer v. Naples, 66 Maine, 455. Nature of injuries : Blaclcington v. Rockland, 66 Maine, 233 ; Goodwin v. Gardiner, 84 Maine, 280. Location of defect: Blackington v. Rockland, supra; Bradbury v. Benton, 69 Maine, 194; Hubbard v. Fayette, 70 Maine, 121; Chapman v. Nobleboro, 76 Maine, 430 ; Goodwin v. Gardiner, supra. Nature of defect: Holmes v. Paris, 75 Maine, 559 ; Buck v. Biddeford, 82 Maine, 437.
1Opinion of the Court
Walton, <L
The question is whether the following notice is sufficient to answer the requirements of the Eevised Statutes, chap. 18, § 80.
"To the Municipal officers and Inhabitants of the City of Saco in the County of York and State of Maine :
"You are hereby notified that on Saturday, January 18, 1893, an accident occurred on Main street in said Saco, by which a horse owned by Albert H. Lord of said Saco, was greatly injured *232by reason of a defect in the planking between the tracks of the Boston and Maine Railroad on said Main street, for which said owner claims damages for the same. Henry I.…
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