Palmer v. City of Portsmouth
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Case, for special damage to the plaintiff, by obstructions in a highway, which was described in the declaration as leading from Pier Wharf to Anthony street, crossing Middle and Summer streets, and called State street, and alleging that it was defective in that portion of said highway between Middle and Summer streets. And one question was, whether this was a sufficient description of the highway.
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Case, for special damage to the plaintiff, by obstructions in a highway, which was described in the declaration as leading from Pier Wharf to Anthony street, crossing Middle and Summer streets, and called State street, and alleging that it was defective in that portion of said highway between Middle and Summer streets. And one question was, whether this was a sufficient description of the highway. The evidence tended to show that the plaintiff was injured while, as a fireman, he was hastening to a fire in the evening, and came in contact with some pieces of board left upon a joiner’s…
1Opinion of the CourtBellows, J.
The objection to the declaration seems to us without foundation. It is alleged that, on the day of the accident to the plaintiff, there was a highway in Portsmouth called State street, leading from Pier Wharf to Anthony street, crossing Middle and Summer streets, which the city of Portsmouth was bound to keep in good repair; that the highway was defective in that portion of it which extends from Middle street to Summer street, by reason of certain obstructions, &c. The objection is that there is here no sufficient description of the highway. The termini of the highway are distinctly stated,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- State v. Inhabitants of FryeburgSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1839
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