In re Acquiring Title by the City of New York

McAvoy, J.:

While the court, sitting to condemn land for a public use, is untrammeled by technical rules of evidence and unrestricted as to its source of information as to values, and should be guided by its own judgment and experience rather than by the opinions of expert witnesses, yet the court must consider relevant evidence on values in the vicinity as established by sales of similar properties and the prices paid for the very land itself within a not too remote *171period from the date of the vesting of title in the city. That this was not done in this instance is evidenced by the awards…