Trouble
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
As used in a statute giving a land-owner damages for the trouble and expense he is put to by proceedings to lay out a city street upon his land, refers to trouble from which some material or pecuniary injury results, involving labor and the expenditure of time, or occasioning inconvenience to 'the owner in the use and occupation of the land. Mental troubles, so difficult to estimate by any pecuniary standard, and which may vary in different individuals, according to their temperament or health, do not come within the meaning of the word.
Whitney v
City of Lynn, 122 ^fass. 338.