Boyd v. Lawrence Redevelopment Authority

This is a petition under G. L. c. 79 for the assessment of damages resulting from the authority’s taking of about seventeen acres of land in Lawrence (the locus) zoned for industrial purposes. The authority being dissatisfied with the verdict brings the case here on exceptions.

1. , There was no abuse of discretion in the action of the judge in receiving de bene, at the outset of the trial, evidence about sales of four parcels in the Lawrence-North Andover area. Evidence was offered later that all the four parcels were comparable with the locus, although, at the time when testimony concerning…