Manson v. City of Boston
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition to the Superior Court for the assessment of damages caused by the taking of land by the park commissioners of the city of Boston. Trial in the Superior Court, before Dunbar, J., who, after a verdict for the petitioner, reported the case for the determination of this court. The material facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtAllen, J.
The recent decision in Butchers' Slaughtering & Melting Association v. Commonwealth, ante, 386, goes far towards settling both of the questions presented in this case. In that case a part of the petitioner’s land was taken for a public sewer ; and it was held that the owner might put in evidence the reasonable cost of any necessary adaptation of his land to the new state of things produced by the public work for which the land was taken, if the adaptation and the cost were proper, having reference to the market value of the remaining part of the land; and that evidence of the subsequent acts…
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