City of Worcester v. Lakeside Manufacturing Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed June 3,1898, in the Superior Court, to restrain the defendant from prosecuting a petition filed May 23, 1898, for an assessment of damages for the taking by the plaintiff, under St. 1895, c. 384, of certain property of the defendant. Hearing before Graslcill, J., who entered a decree for the plaintiff ; and, the defendant having appealed therefrom, reported the case for the determination of this court. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, J.
In this case there is a decree for the plaintiff, an appeal, and a report of facts under St. 1883, c. 223, § 7, as amended by St. 1893, c. 61. The report in some parts indicates that the exact nature and object of such a report was not carefully considered by the person who drew it. It sets out the decree in full, and concludes with the words: “ I report the case on the exceptions and appeal for the determination of the Supreme Judicial Court.” The object of the statute is to secure to parties as a right that which previously had been accorded them as matter of discretion by the justices of…
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