The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-02
LEGAL NOTICES.

COMMON WEALTH Ot' MAoSASi1C,
SETTS-Worcester, SIS. Supreme judicial
Court Nashua River Paper Company VS.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Petit
ton for assessment of damages.
To the Honorable the Justices OF the
Supreme Judicial Court in and for said
county of Worcester:
Respectfully represents the \ as iiua
duly organized under the laws of the
commonwealth of Massachusetts,.
That it is engaged in the, business OF
manufacturing paper in the town OF
Pepperell in the county Of MiddleseX, IN
said commonwealth.
That on the twenty-third day of July
in the year 1897, it was the owner ia fee
the buildings thereon, situated in said
town of Pepperell, and bounded and
described as follows:
First parcel bounded northerly on land
formerly of Alexander Dewitt and
Thomas f. Tarbell, afterward Bellows.
which was by said Bellows conveyed to
Fl. NJ Clark, being the piece of land next
hereinafter described; easterly and south
erly on land now or late of the Worcester,
Nashua and Rochester railroad, and
westerly on the Nashua river containing
first parcel of land described in deed of
Charles Fairchild to the Fairchild Paper
Company, dated January Sd, 1881, and
recorded with Middlesex south district
deeds book 1858, page Y.
Second parcel, situated just northerly
of and adjoining the parcel last described
and bounded: Beginning at a point on
said river at lot last described, and at
the easterly end of a dam, as shown on
plan made by Alexander Wadsworth,
dated August 10, 1860, and recorded in said
registry of deeds; thence running south
erly about seven % feet to land of said
railroad company; thence 4SS4 degrees
east by land of said railroad company
about three hundred and thirty $500 feet;
thence running northwesterly to said
river one hundred and thirty-four dS4l
feet; thence running southerly by said
river to the point of beginning. Together
with all the rights, easements and cove
nants and subject to all the restrictions
and membranes mentioned in deed of
Thomas F. Tarbell to Alexander Dewitt
dated July r. 1854 and recorded in said
registry, book 704, page 500, and subject
to all the rights. incumbrances, ease
ments and privileges mentioned or re-
ferred to in deed from Bellows to
Clark. dated January 1st 1864, and re-
corded in said registry book .91S, page
439. Being the second parcel of land de-
scribed in said deed of Charles Fairchild
to said Fairchild Paper Company
Third parcel, situated on the westerly
side of said river and opposite the parcel
first above described: Beginning at the
northwesterly corner thereof at land
formerly of Isaac Bennett; thence run
ming southwesterlY and southerly by a
line parallel with and everywhere twenty
five feet distant westerly from the high
water mark of said river about twelve
rods to a point near the brook; thence
running easterly to said river; thence
running northerly down and by said river
to land now or late of said Bennett;
thence westerly by land formerly of said
Bennett to the point of beginning. Being
a portion of the third parcel of land de-
scribed in said deed of Charles Fairchild
to the Fairchild Paper Company.
Fourth parcel: Beginning at a point
on the westerly side of Groton street that
is three rods southerly of the high-water
mark of said river, said point of begin
ming being near Jewett's bridge, So
w nrl nd
southerly in a line parallel with and
everywhere three rods distant southerly
and westerly of the high-water mark of
said river to land now or late of Everett
e. Tarbell; thence running westerly by
said Tarbell land to said river; thence
running northerly and easterly by said
river to said Groton street, at Jewett's
bridge aforesaid; thence running south
erly by said Jewett's bridge to the point
of beginning. Being part of the seventh
parcel of land Described in said deed of
Company.
Fifth parcel Beginning at point on
the westerly side of Mill street, which
point is twenty-five feet northerly from
the thread of the brook which crosses
said street from Cowdry pond, so-called;
thence westerly in a line parallel with
and everywhere twenty-five feet distant
northerly from the thread of said stream
to a point that is twenty-five feet easterly
from hiah-water mark of said pond
thence running northerly and westerly in
twenty-five feet distant westerly and
northerly from said pond at high-water
mark to land formerly of Henry A
Parker; thence easterly across said pond
by land formerly of Abel Hodgman
thence easterly and northerly in a line
parallel with and everywhere twenty
five, feet distant southerly and easterly of
said pond at high-water mark to a point
that is twenty-five feet distant southerly
from the thread of said brook; thence
easterly in line parallel with and every
distant and southerly from the thread
of said brook to said Mill street: thence
northerly by said street to the point of
beginning. Being portion of the ninth
parcel of land described in said deed of
Charles Fairchild to the Fairchild Paper
Company Excepting, however, from the
parcel above described, such portions
thereof, if any, as have been heretofore
conveyed by said Fairchild Paper Com
pany to the Brookline and Pepperell
Railroad Company.
Sixth parcel, with the paper mill, race
ways, and all other buildings and struc-
lures theron. Beginning at the north
westerly corner thereof at said Mill street
at land now or late of the Pepperell
by land of the Pepperell Card & Paper
Company aforesaid to the Nashua river;
thence southerly up and by said river to
Main street; thence easterly by said Main
street to said Mill street: thence north
erly by said Mill street; thence easterly
in a line parallel with and twenty-five
feet distant northerly from the barn of
the agents house. so-called, situated at
the corner of said Main street and Mill
street to a point where q line parallel
with and six feet distant easterly from
the easterly side of said barn would in
tersect the line last described thence
northerly to a stake driven in the ground
six feet easterly of the southeasterly
corner of land now or late of Mrs
Harper and in line of her southerIv line
extended; thence westerly to her south
erly corner; thence northerly by land
now or late. of said Harper and north
westerly by land now or late of Frank H.
Behrens to said Mill street; thence north |
erly by said Mill street to land now or
late of Charles H. Miller; thence easterly, |
northerly and westerly by land of said
Miller to said Mill street; thence north
erly by said Mill street to the point of
beginning.
Seventh parcel: Beginning at the north |
westerly corner thereof at said Main
street at land now or late of said BEN
nett; thence southerly by said Bennett |
land to said river; thence easterly and
northerly, by said river to said Main
street; thence westerly by said Main |
street to the point of beginning
That on the twenty-third day of July, |
in the year 1897, the Metropolitan Water |
Board, acting for the commonwealth of
Massachusetts, under the provisions con-
tanned in chapter ass of the acts of 1895 |
and acts in amendment thereof, took the |
south branch. so-called, of the Nashua |
river for the purpose of constructing |
maintaining and operating a system Of
metropolitan water works as provided |
for in said act
That by said taking the amount of
water flowing by the plaintiffs mills |
and through the PLAINTIFFS land has been |
greatly decreased, and the plaintiff has
suffered damages to a large amount
And your petitioner, being unable to |
agree with said Metropolitan Water |
Board as to the amount of damages to |
be paid to 1t as compensation for injuries |
thus sustained, respectfully asks that it's |
damages may be assessed in the manner |
provided In section IA of said act and |
amendments to the same.
And the Old Colony Trust Company of |