Legal Opinion

Valley Paper Co. v. Holyoke Housing Authority

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided December 10, 1963PublishedCited by 11 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtCutter, J.

This is a petition under G. L. c. 79 by Valley Paper Company (Valley) to recover damages for the taking by the Holyoke Housing Authority on May 27, 1958, of 46,777 square feet of vacant land (the locus). The locus lies south of the second level canal of the Holyoke Water Power Company and also south of Canal Street (sixty feet wide), which is between the canal (about 140 feet wide) and the locus. Valley (in addition to damages for land actually taken) also seeks to recover for alleged diminution in value of its land (131,767 square feet) and mills on the north side of the canal. The…

2Cases cited28 opinions

  1. United States Ex Rel. Tennessee Valley Authority v. PowelsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
  2. Baetjer v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1944
  3. International Paper Company v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1956
  4. Epstein v. Boston Housing AuthorityMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1944
  5. United States v. Honolulu Plantation Co. Honolulu Plantation Co. v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1950

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3Cited by11 opinions

  1. City of San Diego v. NeumannCalifornia Supreme Court · 1993
  2. Boyd v. Lawrence Redevelopment AuthorityMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1964
  3. State Ex Rel. Symms v. City of Mountain HomeIdaho Supreme Court · 1972
  4. R. H. White Realty Co., Inc. v. Boston Redevelopment AuthorityMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1975
  5. Silk v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1973

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