Wood v. Inhabitants of Milton
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, filed in the Land Court January 16,1906, for registration of the title to certain land in Milton bounding in part on Lincoln Street, which the petitioners alleged to be a private way, the use and benefit of the whole of which, in common with other adjoining owners, belonged to them. The respondent contended that Lincoln Street was a highway duly laid out by the selectmen and accepted by vote of the town.
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Petition, filed in the Land Court January 16,1906, for registration of the title to certain land in Milton bounding in part on Lincoln Street, which the petitioners alleged to be a private way, the use and benefit of the whole of which, in common with other adjoining owners, belonged to them. The respondent contended that Lincoln Street was a highway duly laid out by the selectmen and accepted by vote of the town. There was a hearing before Davis, J. There was no question but that Lincoln Street was a private way unless it had been properly laid out and accepted as a street by the town. The…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, J.
The single question presented is whether, after it has been voted at a town meeting to postpone indefinitely an article in the warrant to see whether the town will accept a street as laid out by the selectmen, the town can, at a subsequent meeting called upon a new warrant containing an appropriate article, vote to accept the same street as originally laid out, without further or renewed action by the selectmen touching the subject. Primarily it is necessary to ascertain the meaning of the vote to indefinitely postpone the acceptance of the street. It is of assistance in interpreting language…
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