Blaisdell v. City of Portland
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Ox EXCEPTIONS from Nisi Prius, Howaud, J., presiding. Case, for damages alleged to have been occasioned by a defect in Commercial street, in Portland, on Oct. 25, 1851. The street, extending the whole length of the city, over tide water, and across the wharves and flats, was laid out by the city'council, and duly accepted by the city on March 29, 1850, but no time was prescribed in which it should be constructed.
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Ox EXCEPTIONS from Nisi Prius, Howaud, J., presiding. Case, for damages alleged to have been occasioned by a defect in Commercial street, in Portland, on Oct. 25, 1851. The street, extending the whole length of the city, over tide water, and across the wharves and flats, was laid out by the city'council, and duly accepted by the city on March 29, 1850, but no time was prescribed in which it should be constructed. Upon such acceptance the city made a contract with the Atlantic & St. Lawrence Railroad Co., to build the street, one portion of it in two, and the remaining in three years. The…
1Opinion of the CourtRice, J.
— The case finds that the street, on which the injury occurred, was duly accepted by the city government, on March 29, 1850, by a vote ordering that such street had been duly and legally laid out, and that it be accepted, allowed, and established, and that it bo known as Commercial street; but no time was stated in which the street was to be made; that the city immediately upon the acceptance and location of the street, as before mentioned, entered into a contract with the Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railroad Company, to construct and build the street, to be completed from-street to Union…
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