Vallone v. City of Cranston Department of Public Works

These are three petitions brought in the superior court for the assessment of damages resulting from the taking by eminent domain of certain easements in the land of the petitioners pursuant to P. L. 1927, chap. 1079, sec. 3, wherein provision is made for a trial on such petitions, at which the court “shall determine all questions of fact relating to the value of such * * * easements and the amount thereof * * The petitions were heard by a justice of the superior court, jury trial having been expressly waived, and thereafter a decision was entered in the first case for the petitioner in the…