Legal Opinion
Chandler v. County Commissioners
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided August 7, 2002PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMarshall, C.J.
At issue in this appeal is the validity of several takings of land in the Surfside area on the southern coast of Nantucket. The county commissioners of Nantucket County *431(commissioners) took the property in fee simple pursuant to G. L. c. 82. That statute grants the commissioners the authority to take land “necessary, for the purpose of laying out, altering or relocating a highway.” G. L. c. 82, § 7. At public hearings related to the takings the commissioners stressed that they had “no plan to do anything” with the taken land; they sought only to “preserv[e] historic rights [of way] to the…
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