Wojnar v. County of Worcester
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
1Opinion of the CourtCrosby, J.
The bill alleges that the defendant by its county commissioners, its agents and servants, unlawfully entered upon the plaintiff’s land and laid a sewer pipe therein connecting with drains or sewers in an adjacent highway; that it built a wall on the plaintiff’s land and dug an open ditch extending from the pipe and wall across the plaintiff’s land; and that it has converted to its own use the soil excavated in the digging of the ditch; all to the damage of the plaintiff.
The prayers of the bill are that the defendant be enjoined from turning water from the highway through the pipe and ditch…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Moynihan v. ToddMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1905
- Todd v. Dowd's heirsCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1858
- Donohue v. City of NewburyportMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1912
- Cavanagh v. City of BostonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1885
- Pinkerton v. Inhabitants of RandolphMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1908
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3Cited by2 opinions
- Gray v. City of BostonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1931
- Marcus v. County CommissionersMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1962