Hewett v. County Commissioners
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On report. This was an action of certiorari to bring up the record made up by the Court of County Commissioners, for Knox County, on the petition of the Lime Rock Railroad Company for assessment of damages on land taken by said railroad belonging to the estate of Samuel Pillsbury, late of Rockland, deceased, of whose estate the petitioner is administrator. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtHaskell, J.
Certiorari to quash the record of the county commissioners of Knox County, m assessing damages to land from the location of the Lime Rock Railroad.
To petitions for the writ of certiorari, a copy of the record sought to be quashed should be annexed, and notice thereon ordered to the tribunal whose record is sought to be quashed, and in the discretion of the court, to such persons as may be interested in the result, who may appear and answer and be *309subject to costs. E. S., c. 102, § 14. At tbe hearing, three methods of procedure are open to the defense.
First: If the record is thought to be…
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