Pillsbury v. City of Rockland
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Agreed statement. This was an appeal by complainant from an award 'of damages in a proceeding, by the city of Rockland, to locate and establish the bounds of Main street in said city, and which' bounds had never been legally established.
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Agreed statement. This was an appeal by complainant from an award 'of damages in a proceeding, by the city of Rockland, to locate and establish the bounds of Main street in said city, and which' bounds had never been legally established. The case was submitted upon the following agreed statement of facts: "Appeal from the award and proceedings of the city of Rock-land, establishing the bounds in Main street in said Rockland, in 1890. "Prior to said proceedings in 1890, there is no record of the laying out or establishing of said street; nor were there any records or monuments by which the…
1Opinion of the CourtWalton, J.
The question is whether the proceedings of the city of Rockland in locating and establishing the side lines of Main street iu front of Pillsbury Block were such as to entitle the owner to damage.
We think not. The proceedings were in 1890. The street had then existed for over forty years and the block had been erected for over thirty years. Presumptively the front of the block was the line of the street. And it is still the line of the street. * At that point the street was not widened. It was allowed to remain precisely as it had remained for over thirty years. True, there- was a wall about…
2Cited by1 opinion
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