Pierce v. City of Boston
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition for the assessment of damages for the taking, by the city of Boston, under the provisions of St. 1875, c. 185, of a tract of land, containing 28,790 square feet, with the buildings thereon, situated at the corner of Pond and Prince Streets in that part of Boston called Jamaica Plain. Trial in the Superior Court, before Hopkins, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions, in substance as follows.
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Petition for the assessment of damages for the taking, by the city of Boston, under the provisions of St. 1875, c. 185, of a tract of land, containing 28,790 square feet, with the buildings thereon, situated at the corner of Pond and Prince Streets in that part of Boston called Jamaica Plain. Trial in the Superior Court, before Hopkins, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions, in substance as follows. One Atwood, called as a witness for the petitioners, testified that he had examined the dwelling-house standing on the land of the petitioners when the land was taken, on April 29, 1892, and that…
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, J.
The petitioners do not rely much upon their exception to the exclusion of the question to Atwood as to the distance of Custer Street from their land, or the question to Downes whether the land sold by Brewer to Gill was large enough for a house and stable, or on the question to Atwood as. to the statement made to him by Viaux, and we think it only necessary to say that, after considering them, we discover no error in the rulings.
1. The witness Barrows was offered by the petitioner as an *97expert regarding the value of the land and buildings, and, after stating what in his opinion they were…
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