Home for Aged Women v. Commonwealth
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Four petitions, filed in the Superior Court respectively on November 25, December 9, December 11,1908, and February 26, 1909, under St. 1906, c. 402, § 4, for the assessment by a jury of damages suffered by the several petitioners by. reason of the work done by the Charles River Basin commissioners under authority of the provisions of that chapter, the petitioner in the first case being the owner of a lot of land bounded on the north by Revere Street, in Boston, on the east…
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Four petitions, filed in the Superior Court respectively on November 25, December 9, December 11,1908, and February 26, 1909, under St. 1906, c. 402, § 4, for the assessment by a jury of damages suffered by the several petitioners by. reason of the work done by the Charles River Basin commissioners under authority of the provisions of that chapter, the petitioner in the first case being the owner of a lot of land bounded on the north by Revere Street, in Boston, on the east by Charles Street, on the south by Pinckney Street and on the west by the Charles River, the petitioner in the second…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
Each o.f these petitioners is an owner of land extending northward, or westward, to the line of the sea wall on the southerly side of the Charles River in Boston, which wall runs from a point in the southwest corner of the stone wall of the Charlesbank, westerly to the easterly line of the Back Bay Fens. This wall, opposite the land of the several petitioners, is northerly, or westerly, pf and below the line of low water. The Charles River Basin commission, acting under the St. 1903, c. 465, as amended by the St. 1906, c. 402, filed in the registry of deeds for the county of Suffolk a taking…
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