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assured by the late Abraham Hilliard, Esq., that in the trial of the Cambridge Street case, the principle of law was first announced and established in the courts of this Commonwealth, that the damage which a land owner sustains by the taking of his land for a highway, and the benefit which he derives from its construction, shall be equitably adjusted, and offset against each other; and if the benefit be equal to the damage, he shall receive nothing more.
Boston. Houghton and Mifflin. 1877.
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