Christopher J. Cooper v. Housing Authority

This is a follow-up of an earlier opinion in a condemnation case. Cooper v. Housing Authority of City of Newport, 105 R. I. 126, 249 A.2d 904. In that case the damages awarded by the jury coincided exactly with the $5,100 which Louis P. Virgadamo, the respondent’s expert, had testified was the fair market value of the condemned property. That verdict, however, was not allowed to stand, and on the petitioner’s motion for a new trial it was set aside by the trial justice who granted a new trial unless the respondent would agree to pay as damages for the taking $1,900 plus interest in addition…