Citizens' Gas Light Company of Reading, South Reading, & Stoneham v. Inhabitants of Wakefield

This is a petition under St. 1891, c. 370, § 13, and the case comes before us by appeal from an order of a single justice overruling the demurrer of the respondent, and by appeal from a decree of a single justice appointing commissioners to determine what property shall be sold by the petitioner and bought by the respondent, and what the price, time, and other conditions of the sale and delivery shall be. The facts on which the decree is founded are recited in the decree. The petition was filed on October 28, 1892, and all the proceedings were had before the passage of St. 1893, c. 454.

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