Talmage v. Hunting

By the Court,

Brown, J.

The plaintiffs are commissioners of highways of the town of Basthampton, in the county of Suffolk, and they claim to recover from Nathaniel Hunt*655ing, the defendant, $275, penalties incurred hy him for the omission to remove certain encroachments alleged to have been made by him upon the south side of a street or public highway called Tower street, running through the village of Easthampton, in said town, pursuant to an order made by them to that effect, of the date of June 11th, 1859, and the verdict or certificate of a jury found thereupon. The street runs northeasterly…