Brayton v. City of Fall River
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition of eleven citizens of the county of Bristol, praying for the appointment of commissioners under the St. of 1872, c. 295, § 1, authorizing the Old Colony and Newport Railway Company to construct a highway and railway bridge over Taunton Great River.
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Petition of eleven citizens of the county of Bristol, praying for the appointment of commissioners under the St. of 1872, c. 295, § 1, authorizing the Old Colony and Newport Railway Company to construct a highway and railway bridge over Taunton Great River. Commissioners were appointed, who heard the parties, and made an award, in which they determined that the sum of $76,361.20, being one fourth part of the equitable cost of the bridge, should be paid to the railroad company; and decreed that the city of Fall River and the towns of Somerset and Swansea were specially benefited, and that they…
1Opinion of the CourtColt, J.
The city of Fall River, ’and the towns of Somerset and Swansea, object to the acceptance of an award made by commissioners appointed by this court to apportion and assess upon the county of Bristol, and the cities and towns therein, a part of the cost of a bridge constructed for both highway and railway purposes, across Taunton Great River, by the Old Colony and Newport Railway Company, according to a plan approved by the railroad commissioners, and under the provisions of the St. of 1872, c. 295.
There is no express requirement in the statute that the doings af the commissioners shall be…
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