Walker v. City of Manchester

Petition, for an increase of damages for land taken for a highway. Upon a petition, the mayor and aldermen of Manchester laid out a highway known as Walker street. Several years before, one Parker, owning land south, and the plaintiff and his father and brother owning land north, of the centre of Walker street, as the same was subsequently laid out, made an arrangement among themselves for a system of streets upon their respective lands, and executed a writing by which they “ mutually agree, for themselves and their heirs, successors, and assigns, that whenever either party lays out a street…