Bartlett v. City of Lowell
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract, as stated in the opinion. Writ in the Superior Court for the county of Middlesex dated January 1, 1908. The case was tried before King, J. The facts are stated in the opinion. At the close of the plaintiff’s evidence, the judge ordered a verdict for the defendant upon each count of the declaration ; and the plaintiff alleged exceptions.
1Opinion of the CourtLoring, J.
The only exception in this case was taken to the ruling directing a verdict for the defendant.
The plaintiff introduced evidence that in the year 1903 he made a contract with the superintendent of streets of the defendant city, whereby he agreed to sell to the city, for use in repairing the city streets, all the gravel above a specified grade that there was on a parcel of land owned by him, and the city agreed to fill all depressions on said parcel of land with street sweepings so as to bring up the whole surface to the specified grade; that in pursuance thereof the city took from his land…
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