Legal Opinion
Rivers v. Town of Warwick
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided November 8, 1994No. 92-P-1538PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtArmstrong, J.
The plaintiffs, owners of a summer house and four parcels of land in Warwick, brought this action to recover damages under G. L. c. 79, § 10, and c. 82, § 24, for the action of the town, in town meeting, in discontinuing two roads (Page Road and Flagg Road) and part of a third (Wilson Road). See Mahan v. Rockport, 287 Mass. 34, 37 (1934). The case was tried on the plaintiffs’ theory that these were all town ways, or public ways of which the town had the duty of maintenance, and that two, at least, of their parcels, parcel A, the house lot of thirty-six acres with frontage on Wilson Road and…
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- Fenn v. Town of MiddleboroughMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1979
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