163 Mass. 77 | Mass. | 1895
In our opinion the Superior Court has power to allow an amendment changing a petition, under Pub. Sts. c. 52, § 16, for damage to property by reason of any raising, lowering, or other act done for the purpose of repairing a way, into a petition under Pub. Sts. c. 49, § 79, for the assessment of damages occasioned by the laying out of the way, if, when the proceedings in the Superior Court were begun, the petitioner had the right to the latter remedy, and if the work upon the way relied upon in support of the amended petition was the cause of action relied upon in the petition originally filed. Such petitions are of the same general character, and are to be tried at the same bar and in the same manner. The same acts of the town upon the surface of the ground within the limits of the