Case Name: Commonwealth versus Samuel Chase & Al.
Court: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1806-10
Citations: 1 Tyng 170
Docket Number: 
Parties: Commonwealth versus Samuel Chase & Al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Massachusetts Reports
Volume: 2
Pages: 165–165

Head Matter:
Commonwealth versus Samuel Chase & Al.
Town must be notified of a petition for a highway before the Court of Sessions adjudge it of common convenience and necessity.
Ward for the commonwealth.
Bigelow and Dana for the respondents.

Opinion:
This was a certiorari to the Sessions, brought to quash the proceedings relative to the laying out a highway in Shirley, upon the petition of Chase Al. The Court of Sessions, without * notice to the town, adjudged the way prayed [ * 171 ] ,for to be of common convenience and necessity, and appointed a committee to lay it out. And for this cause the
Proceedings were quashed.
Commonwealth vs. Peters, 3 Mass. Rep. 229. —Commonwealth vs. Cambridge, 4 Mass. Rep. 627. — Same vs. Same, 7 Mass Rep. 158 — Commonwealth vs. Coombs, 2 Mass. Rep. 489.— Commonwealth vs. Great Barrington, 6 Mass. Rep. 492.