Burt v. Merchants' Insurance
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition filed April 16, 1873, under the St. of 1873, o. 189, § 2,* by William L. Burt, as the agent employed by the United States under said statute, to the Superior Court for this county, against the Merchants’ Insurance Company, and Charles D. Head and Francis Curtis, receivers of said company, which had been declared insolvent.
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Petition filed April 16, 1873, under the St. of 1873, o. 189, § 2,* by William L. Burt, as the agent employed by the United States under said statute, to the Superior Court for this county, against the Merchants’ Insurance Company, and Charles D. Head and Francis Curtis, receivers of said company, which had been declared insolvent. The petition described the first estate men-tinned in § 1, being the estate of the Merchants’ Insurance Company, on the comer of Congress and Water Streets in Boston, and alleged that the plaintiff had attempted to purchase the said land of the defendants, and that…
1Opinion of the CourtGray, C. J.
This is a proceeding for the assessment of damages to the owners of land appropriated to the use of the United States for the enlargement of the post office in Boston, in accordance with statutes duly passed by Congress, and by the legislature of the Commonwealth. U. S. St 1873, c. 227. St. 1873, c. 189. Burt v. Merchants’ Ins. Co. 106 Mass. 356.
The rights of the government on the one hand, and of the owners of the land on the other, are secured by a provision "‘n the act of Congress that no money appropriated for the purpose shall be expended until a valid title to the land shall be vested…
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