Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court January 12, 1903 (Ahearn v. County of Middlesex)

Knowlton, C. J.

These are petitions for an assessment of damages to the lands of the respective petitioners, occasioned by the alteration and widening of Belmont Street, a public highway, by order of the county commissioners of Middlesex. The order of the commissioners directed the payment of the damages in each case by the town in which the land lies.