Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court October 15, 1808 (Inhabitants of Stoughton v. Baker)

The action stood continued nisi, and at the March term in Suffolk, the opinion of the Court was delivered by

Parsons, C. J.

The plaintiffs found their claim on the resolution of the legislature recited in the declaration; on the alteration of the former sluice-way ordered by the committee therein appoint ed ; on the refusal of the defendants to make that alteration seasonably ; on the authority