Commonwealth, Department of Transportation v. Peoples Bank

OPINION BY

Judge McGINLEY.

Real Places, LP (Condemnee) appeals the order of the Court of Common Pleas of York County (trial court) which denied Condemnee’s motion for post-trial relief whereby Condemnee sought the admission into evidence of alleged purchases of comparable properties by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Transportation (DOT) outside of condemnation proceedings. 1

On August 16, 2002, DOT filed a right of way plan in the York County Recorder of Deeds office. The plan was entitled, “Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Transportation Drawings Re-Establishing…