Snow v. Inhabitants of Provincetown
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petitions under the Gen. Sts. c. 44, § 19, to recover damages to the estates of the petitioners by reason of the raising of the grade of Vine Street in Provincetown.
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Petitions under the Gen. Sts. c. 44, § 19, to recover damages to the estates of the petitioners by reason of the raising of the grade of Vine Street in Provincetown. At the trial, before a sheriff’s jury, verdicts were returned in favor of the petitioners, which the presiding officer certified to the superior court together with the following statement of his rulings : “ It appeared that Vine Street was for many years before 1868 a town way about fourteen feet wide; that in March 1868 the selectmen duly widened and straightened it to a width of thirty feet, and this action was accepted by the…
1Opinion of the CourtColt, J.
There is nothing in the report of the presiding officer which justifies setting aside the verdicts of the jury awarding damages to the petitioners for raising the grade of Vine Street. It is not to be inferred from the facts stated, that the petitioners wil] receive under these verdicts damages which were paid them when the street was located or widened. The town voted to grade the street under an article in the warrant in the year 1870, nearly two years after the proceedings for widening and straightening it were accepted. The two proceedings were entirely independent of each other; and…
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