Legal Opinion
Lancy v. City of Boston
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided February 27, 1904PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLathrop, J.
This is a petition to the Superior Court, filed June 25, 1900, for a jury to assess damages for the taking of a parcel of the petitioner’s land for a highway, by the commissioners appointed under the St. of 1897, c. 519, to consider the abolition of the grade crossing of Dorchester Avenue and the railroad of the Old Colony Railroad Company. The decision of the commissioners was confirmed by that court on June 23, 1898.
The taking by the commissioners was authorized by § 3 of the act, and, by § 4, all damages suffered by any persons in their property by reason of anything done under the act…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Appleton v. City of NewtonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1901
- Custy v. City of LowellMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1875
- City of Cambridge v. County CommissionersMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1875
- Bainard v. City of NewtonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1891
- Boston Belting Co. v. City of BostonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1889
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3Cited by17 opinions
- International Paper Co. v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1919
- Anglim v. City of BrocktonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1932
- Del Grosso v. Board of Appeal of RevereMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1953
- Nylander v. PotterMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1996
- Weeks v. GraceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1907
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