Roberts v. City of Boston
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition to the Superior Court for a jury to assess the petitioner’s damages for the taking of land in Boston for a new court-house. Trial before Pitman, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions, which so far as material was as follows.
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Petition to the Superior Court for a jury to assess the petitioner’s damages for the taking of land in Boston for a new court-house. Trial before Pitman, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions, which so far as material was as follows. The petitioner’s property consisted of a house and lot containing 3,082 square feet, and situated on the easterly side of Somerset Street, with a frontage of thirty-seven feet directly opposite the easterly end of Ashburton Place, which is forty feet wide and leads off from the westerly side of Somerset Street at that point. The petitioner’s evidence tended to…
1Opinion of the CourtW. Allen, J.
Several questions of evidence are presented by these exceptions.
1. Certain evidence offered by the petitioner was objected to by the respondent, and excluded as incompetent by the court, *353to which ruling the petitioner excepted. The respondent then withdrew its objection to the evidence, and the court for that reason admitted it. The petitioner declined to put in the evidence, and insisted upon his exception. The exception was to the ruling excluding the evidence, and it necessarily failed when that ruling was reversed and the evidence admitted. The reasons of the court for admitting the…
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