Sharp v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT OP APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT. The plaintiff in error has sued out this writ for the purpose of reviewing a judgment of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, which affirmed a judgment of the District Court of New Jersey, awarding damages to plaintiff in error for the taking of certain, property of his on the Delaware River, near Fort Mott, in that State.
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ERROR TO THE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT OP APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT. The plaintiff in error has sued out this writ for the purpose of reviewing a judgment of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, which affirmed a judgment of the District Court of New Jersey, awarding damages to plaintiff in error for the taking of certain, property of his on the Delaware River, near Fort Mott, in that State. The award of the jury was, in the opinion of the plaintiff in error, entirely inadequate as just compensation to him as the owner of the land for its taking by the…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Peckham,
-after making.the foregoing statement of facts, delivered the opinion of .the court.
The questions to .be reviewed by this court arise upon exceptions appearing in the record taken upon the decisions of the court in. relation to the admissibility of evidence, and also to the charge of the court as to the proper items to be considered by-the jury in arriving at their verdict.
The errors assigned and upon which the argument was had in the Circuit Court of Appeals were twelve in number. They are in substance the same here. The first seven refer to the rejection of evidence in…
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