Murray v. County of Norfolk
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition to the Superior Court, under the Pub. Sts. c. 49, §§ 13, 105, for a jury to assess damages caused by the relocation and widening of River Street in Hyde Park. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Aldrich, J., the jury returned a verdict assessing the petitioner’s damages, and both the petitioner, who was dissatisfied therewith, and the i-espondent, alleged exceptions, the substance of which appears in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtDevens, J.
The case at bar is before us on exceptions to the rulings of the presiding judge by both the petitioner and the respondent in a proceeding to assess the damages sustained by the petitioner by the relocation and widening of River Street, *329a highway in the town of Hyde Park. The county commissioners made a decree for this relocation, which took from the petitioner a strip of land about eleven feet in width, extending along the front of her estate on that street. This decree was recorded on July 26, 1887, and ordered the town of Hyde Park to construct the street as located anew within one year…
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