Flower v. Town of Billerica

These two petitions for the assessment of damages resulting from the taking by eminent domain of easements for highway purposes in certain private ways near Nuttings Lake in the respondent town allege a taking of the petitioner’s exclusive easement to maintain a water system in those ways. For the background of the controversy, see proceedings for trespass prior to the takings. Suburban Land Co. Inc. v. Billerica, 314 Mass. 184. Flower v. Billerica, 320 Mass. 193. The first petition now before us relates to a taking on March 22, 1940, on Marshall Street, Burtt- Road, Cherry Road, and Pine…