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2 Mass. 102

Commonwealth v. Heare

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided September 15, 1806

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1806-09-15

<p>A statute establishing a turnpike road, authorizes a gate to be erected at such place near A, as the justices of C. C. P. shall determine; and the justices determine it shall be erected at B, near A, or at any place between B and C, at the election of the proprietors: this is not an execution of the power granted to the justices by the statute.</p>

Decided 1806-09-15

¶1The opinion of the Court was afterwards delivered by

Parsons, C. J.

¶2It is not necessary for the Court to form any opinion as to the first exception taken to the proceedings of the Court of Common Pleas by the counsel for the government; because we are satisfied that the second exception is fatal. The location of the gate, as described in the record, cannot, upon any *102just construction we are able to give the words, be considered as an execution of the power granted to the justices of the Common Pleas by the statute establishing this turnpike. And a new trial is not granted.

The Attorney-General (Sullivan) and Ives for the commonwealth. Hulbert for the defendant.
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