Wright v. Commonwealth

This is a petition for the assessment of damages for the value of land taken and injury to remaining land caused by the exercise of eminent domain for the construction of a State highway. Prior to the time of the taking the petitioner owned three and twenty-five one-hundredths acres of land in the town of Weston. A part of this land was low and swampy, through which a brook ran. The remaining land was high and at the highest point there were a house and garage, the house being used by the plaintiff and her husband as their residence. The taking comprised thirty-three thousand nine hundred…