Clair v. Manchester
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Case, for damage to the plaintiff’s stock in trade by the water of Cemetery brook, which was thrown back in consequence of an inadequate culvert in the highway. Transferred from the January term, 1903, of the superior court by Pike, J., upon an agreed statement of facts. August 1, 1892, the mayor and aldermen of the city of Manchester laid out a highway known as Hall street, extending across Cemetery brook — a natural watercourse.
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Case, for damage to the plaintiff’s stock in trade by the water of Cemetery brook, which was thrown back in consequence of an inadequate culvert in the highway. Transferred from the January term, 1903, of the superior court by Pike, J., upon an agreed statement of facts. August 1, 1892, the mayor and aldermen of the city of Manchester laid out a highway known as Hall street, extending across Cemetery brook — a natural watercourse. By the provisions of chapter 264, Laws of 1893, a board of street and park commissioners was established for the city of Manchester, and its duties and powers were…
1Opinion of the CourtBingham, J.
By the special legislative enactment of 1893 (Laws 1893, e. 264, s. 1) the whole territory of the defendant city was constituted one highway district and placed under the superintendence of a board of street and park commissioners. The act provides that the board “ shall have full charge, management, and control of the building, constructing, repairing, and maintaining of all the streets, highways, lanes, sidewalks, and bridges, and public sewers and drains, and of the public parks and commons, in said city of Manchester, and shall have the expenditure of all appropriations which the city…
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