Harrington v. Manchester
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Appeal, from a finding of county commissioners awarding the appellants nominal damages for land taken for highway purposes. Trial by the court. Transferred from the September term, 1910, of the superior court by Wallace, C. J., on an agreed statement of facts.
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Appeal, from a finding of county commissioners awarding the appellants nominal damages for land taken for highway purposes. Trial by the court. Transferred from the September term, 1910, of the superior court by Wallace, C. J., on an agreed statement of facts. November 1, 1872, the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company conveyed to the appellants’ grantors a tract of land in Manchester described as follows: “Westerly on Elm street, there measuring one hundred feet; northerly on Grove street, there measuring one hundred feet; easterly on a twenty-foot passageway, there measuring one hundred feet;…
1Opinion of the CourtBingham, J.
When the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company platted the lands east and west of the Valley Cemetery, dividing them into a system of lots and proposed streets, and sold the lots, bounding them upon the streets and referring to' the plan for further description, they conveyed to the several purchasers, in addition to the lots, the fee in the soil to the center of the street or streets upon which each lot abutted and rights of passage in the other half of such streets (Manchester v. Hodge, 75 N. H. 166), and such easements or rights of passage in the remaining streets designated upon the plan as were…
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