Court Opinion

ID: 3549837
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-05 23:02:59.544046+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:22:46.149984
License: Public Domain

If a railroad company, acting under their charter, create an obstruction in a highway by which a traveller sustains damage, the town is answerable as if the same acts had been done by an individual. Willey v. Portsmouth,35 N.H. 313; Elliot v. Concord, 27 N.H. 204, State v. Dover, 46 N.H. 452; Bacon v. Boston, 3 Cush. 179; Eyler v. Co. Com'rs, 49 Md. 257; Watson v. Tripp, 11 R.I. 98.
Judgment on the verdict.
SMITH, J., did not sit: the others concurred.