President of Harvard College v. Board of Aldermen
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition for a writ of certiorari to quash proceedings of the aldermen of Boston laying an assessment on real estate of the petitioners for the expense of widening Devonshire Street in that city. The petition alleged that the petitioners were owners in fee of a parcel of real estate, situated on Washington Street and extending to Devonshire Street in Boston; that this estate was devised to them by the following provision in the will of Henry Webb, who died in 1660: “ Item.
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Petition for a writ of certiorari to quash proceedings of the aldermen of Boston laying an assessment on real estate of the petitioners for the expense of widening Devonshire Street in that city. The petition alleged that the petitioners were owners in fee of a parcel of real estate, situated on Washington Street and extending to Devonshire Street in Boston; that this estate was devised to them by the following provision in the will of Henry Webb, who died in 1660: “ Item. I give and bequeath unto Harvard College, next and immediately after my decease, my house and land, which I lately…
1Opinion of the CourtWells, J.
By the colony law of 1650, incorporating Harvard College, the corporation was authorized to “ purchase and acquire to themselves, or take and receive upon free gift and donation, any lands, tenements or hereditaments within this jurisdiction of the Massachusetts, not exceeding the value of five hundred pounds per annum.” It was also provided “ that all the lands, tenements and hereditaments, houses or revenues, within this jurisdiction, to the aforesaid president or college ap pertaining, not exceeding the value of five hundred pounds per annum, shall from henceforth be freed from all civil…
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