Chamberlain v. Enfield
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Case, for damages done to the wife on a highway in said Enfield; writ dated August 30,1859. It appeared that one George W. Johnson, in the early part of December, 1857, having purchased a shed, some little distance south of his dwelling-house, which he had agreed to remove that fall and was to use in the erection of a stable near his own house, and for his own use in the spring, took down and removed the same, and that he piled up the timber and lumber within the limits of…
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Case, for damages done to the wife on a highway in said Enfield; writ dated August 30,1859. It appeared that one George W. Johnson, in the early part of December, 1857, having purchased a shed, some little distance south of his dwelling-house, which he had agreed to remove that fall and was to use in the erection of a stable near his own house, and for his own use in the spring, took down and removed the same, and that he piled up the timber and lumber within the limits of the highway, opposite, or nearly opposite, his house, where it would be convenient for him to use in the spring; that…
1Opinion of the CourtSargent, J.
It is objected that the evidence in relation to the right of way over the land in question, offered by the plaintiff, was improperly admitted. The defendant’s position was that Johnson made a reasonable and proper use of his land by the side of the highway. To meet this the plaintiff introduced evidence, without objection, that Johnson claimed other lands near by on which he might have placed his lumber without using the highway. In reply, the defendant showed that another man niade claim to a part of this land, for a way to his building. w ,
Now it might have been a very good reason why…
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