Markus v. County of Middlesex

This petition for a writ of mandamus is by joint owners of land in Lowell against, among others, the treasurer of the county of Middlesex, seeking payment of the sum of $140,474.71 in accordance with a warrant issued and affirmed by a majority of the county ■ commissioners. On June 13, 1968, pursuant to St. 1967, c. 542, for the purpose of improving facifities for the District Court of Lowell, the county commissioners, by instrument recorded in the Middlesex North District registry of deeds, took the petitioners' land by eminent domain. In this taking an award was made in the sum of $144,000.…