Ford v. City of Worcester

This is a petition under G. L. c. 79 to assess damages for the city’s taking of 66.57 acres of a tract of land containing 71.79 acres, owned by the two petitioners, Mr. and Mrs. Ford. On the remaining 5.22 acres were the petitioners’ house and barn, and certain outbuildings and poultry buildings. Ford had conducted a poultry farm on the premises from 1944 to 1948 when he had fifteen hundred laying.hens. In 1949, and again in 1950, he was forced to sell his hens. He then “went back to working for wages.” The jury found damages of $5,940. The petitioners’ bill of exceptions raises principally…