Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court October 15, 1849 (City of Lowell v. Spaulding)

Shaw, C. J.

The city of Lowell, having been obliged to pay damages to a party injured through a defect in one of the' highways therein, arising from the want of repair of a sidewalk, now seek their remedy to recover single damages of the defendant, as the owner of the estate, the sidewalk of which was defective. This case would be similar in principle to the case of Lowell v.