In re Washington Road Co.
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Petition for tbe assessment of damages to land-owners by tbe laying out of tbe petitioners’ road. The petitioners were a corporation, created by an act passed July 1, 1853, which empowered them to lay out a road, “ beginning in or near Peabody River Valley, thence to the top of Mount Washington, and thence to some point on the north-westerly side of said mountain, between the Notch of the White Mountains and Cherry Mountain.”
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Petition for tbe assessment of damages to land-owners by tbe laying out of tbe petitioners’ road. The petitioners were a corporation, created by an act passed July 1, 1853, which empowered them to lay out a road, “ beginning in or near Peabody River Valley, thence to the top of Mount Washington, and thence to some point on the north-westerly side of said mountain, between the Notch of the White Mountains and Cherry Mountain.” If the corporation could not agree with the owners of any land over which the road might be laid out, upon the amount of damages to be paid therefor, or upon a committee…
1Opinion of the CourtPerley, C. J.
This corporation was created for the purpose of opening, constructing and maintaining a road for public travel, subject to a toll, granted and limited by the act of incorporation. As it respects the general objects and use of the proposed road, it is in no respect different from the numerous turnpike roads which have been made in this State under legislative grants to corporations erected for that purpose. In most of the early turnpike charters there is a provision that the State might take the road after forty years, by paying to the corporation the cost and making up the income to twelve…
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