Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court September 15, 1845 (Inhabitants of Dana v. Inhabitants of Hardwick)

Hubbard, J.

This case depends on the construction of *210the statute by which a part of the territories of Hardwick and Petersham were annexed to Dana. There have been many acts of a similar character, and decisions as to two of them have been cited as bearing on the present case ; but no one of these statutes is, in its terms, so precisely like the present as to determine its construction as to