Clark v. Hampstead
Superior Court of New Hampshire
Debt. The case came up from the court of common pleas, upon the following statement of facts and agreement of the parties. This action was debt to recover fifty dollars, that being the amount of damages awarded to the plaintiff by the road commissioners for the county of Rockingham, for land of the plaintiff, taken in laying out a highway in Hampstead.
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Debt. The case came up from the court of common pleas, upon the following statement of facts and agreement of the parties. This action was debt to recover fifty dollars, that being the amount of damages awarded to the plaintiff by the road commissioners for the county of Rockingham, for land of the plaintiff, taken in laying out a highway in Hampstead. The petition for said highway was filed July 23, 1846, and the report of the commissioners, laying out the highway and awarding the damages, was accepted at the February term of the court of common pleas for this county, A. D. 1847. The writ,…
1Opinion of the CourtWoods, J.
It is provided by sections 3,4 and 5 of chapter 52 of the Revised Statutes as follows :
“ 3. If any highway, or alteration therein, shall be laid out and established, any person to whom any damages shall be awarded, may recover the same, with interest, from the person or town liable to pay the same, in case the same shall not be paid to him within thirty days after the same shall be demanded.
4. All actions to recover damages awarded for lands taken for highways which may be discontinued, shall be brought within six months from the time of such discontinuance, and not afterwards.
5. In all…
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