“Petition of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company that the Board prescribe the limits within which additional land may be taken in the town of Norfolk.
Upon the petition of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company, filed March 7, 1913, praying that the board of railroad commissioners prescribe the limits within which additional land may be taken in the town of Norfolk in the comity of Norfolk in the commonwealth of Massachusetts, outside the limits of its route already fixed in said town, for the purpose of making and securing its road and for depot or station purposes and for one or more new tracks adjacent to other land occupied by said railroad company by tracks already in use, due notice having been given to the owners of said land and to all other parties interested as ordered by the Board, and a hearing having been held, at which the petitioner was represented by F. A. Farnham, Esq., its attorney, and Messrs. Ware, land owners, were represented by E. C. Jenney, Esq., this Board does now determine that the petitioner requires said additional land for the purposes set forth in said petition and is unable to obtain the same by agreement with the owners thereof, and does now prescribe the limits within which said land may be taken by the petitioner for the purposes aforesaid without the permission of the owners thereof, to wit, two parcels of land bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at a point in the northerly side of railroad location about one hundred fifty-five (155) feet westerly of Railroad street, so called; thence by said railroad location south 62° 43′ west one hundred seventeen and seventy-nine one-hundredths (117.79) feet: thence continuing by said railroad location south 62° 59′ west twenty-seven and sixtythree one-hundredths (27.63) feet; thence by the location of the Medway branch fifty-eight (58) feet; thence by land of Cornelius J. Murphy and others north 69° 03′ west eighty-one and ninety one-hundredths (81.90) feet: thence north 62° 59′ east by remaining land of Elmer E. Ware and by a line seventy (70) feet northwesterly from and parallel with the base line of railroad location three hundred thirty-five and sixty-three one-hundredths (335.63) feet; thence north 81° 45′ east thirty-nine and thirty-five one-hundredths (39.35) feet; thence by land of Fred P. Thayer and others south 36° 24′ west one hundred twenty-seven and fifteen one-hundredths (127.15) feet to the point of beginning; said parcel containing forty-six one-hundredths (0.46) of an acre more or less.
Beginning in the northerly side line of location of said Medway branch, where the land herein described adjoins on the east the first parcel above described; thence by said Medway branch location by a curve to the right with a radius of six hundred ninety-two and three one-hundredths (692.03) feet one hundred seventy-nine and twentynine one-hundredths (179.29) feet to a point one hundred (100) feet northwesterly from and at right angles to the base line of location, formerly of the New England Railroad Company, now of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company, at station 1222 + 97.63; thence north 62° 59′ east by remaining land of C. J. Murphy et al and by a line seventy (70) feet northwesterly from and parallel with said base line of location one hundred twelve (112) feet more or less; thence south 69° 03′ east by the parcel last above described eighty-one and ninety one-hundredths (81.90) feet to the point of beginning; said parcel containing nine one-hundredths (0.09) of an acre more or less.
The limits hereby prescribed and the land included within the same are shown in yellow upon a plan entitled ” N. Y., N. H. & H. R.R., Midland Division, Land Plan, Property Required from Elmer E. Ware, Norfolk, Mass. Scale 1″ = 100′, Boston, Nov. 19, 1912 “, which plan is signed by the Chairman of the Board, and is made a part of this decree.
Whereto we, members of the board of railroad commissioners, have hereunto set our hands this thirty-first day of May, 1913.
FREDERICK J. MACLEOD,
GEORGE W. BISHOP,
CLINTON WHITE,
[R. R. C. 9267] Commissioners.”
Reference Data:
Annual Report of the Public Service Commission, by Massachusetts Public Service Commission, 1914, pages 336-7
