Proprietors of Mills on Monatiquot River v. Inhabitants of Randolph, Holbrook, & Braintree

These were petitions under the St. of 1885, c. 217, § 4, for the assessment of damages resulting from the joint taking by the respondents of all the water of Great Pond, lying partly in the town of Braintree and partly in the town of Randolph. The petitions were tried together before the same jury. It appears that, at the trial, two of the respondents asked the court to rule “ that the petitioners, in the aggregate, were enti-' *348tied to but two peremptory challenges, and the respondents in the aggregate to but two. The court refused so to rule, but ruled that each side was entitled to sixteen…