Court Opinion

ID: 6423793
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-06-25 12:02:10.786843+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:51:53.516049
License: Public Domain

C. Allen, J.
The two rulings asked for were properly refused.
1. It was impossible to lay down as a rule of law that the town would have notice of a defect in the structure, if the cesspool was in fact defectively built, and was put in by others than by the town itself. That was a question of fact.
2. The fact of the existence of a private cesspool within the limits of a public way is not decisive of negligence on the part of the town. Many uses may properly be made of land within the limits of a public way, and beneath the surface thereof, which are not inconsistent with the public easement.

^Exceptions overruled.