Commonwealth v. Peters
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This was a certiorari brought to quash certain proceedings of the Court of Sessions for altering a highway in the town of Worcester. A number of errors were assigned, but the Court gave no opinion upon any except the following: — “ 6th. Because the said Court of Sessions, by said record and process, have allowed to the said Lincoln, his heirs and assigns, a right to build a dam on the land of said Anna, (1) which they had no authority to do.” *11 7th.
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This was a certiorari brought to quash certain proceedings of the Court of Sessions for altering a highway in the town of Worcester. A number of errors were assigned, but the Court gave no opinion upon any except the following: — “ 6th. Because the said Court of Sessions, by said record and process, have allowed to the said Lincoln, his heirs and assigns, a right to build a dam on the land of said Anna, (1) which they had no authority to do.” *11 7th. Because the said Court of Sessions, by the [ * 126 J record and process aforesaid, have taken the real property of said Anna and given (it) to…
1Opinion of the CourtParker, J.
The committee appear to me to have travelled out of their commission so far as to vitiate their whole proceedings. This grant to Mr. Lincoln was evidently considered, both by the committee and the court, as a compensation to him for the loss of his dam, which was part of the damage sustained by him from this alteration in the way. By law they had no authority to give any thing but money as compensation. For this error, I think the pro ceedings must be quashed.
Sedgwick, J.
I am of the same opinion. The constitution declares, according to the dictates of justice, that private property shall not…
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