Trouble

See Damages. / In a statute giving a land-owner damages for the " trouble and expense " he is put to by proceedings to lay out a street upon his land, the reference is to trouble from which material and pecuniar.v injury results, involving labor and the expenditure of time, or occasioning inconvenience. Mental trouble, so difficult to estimate by any pecuniary standard, and which may vary in different individuals, according to temperament or health, is not intended.'*

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.