Edwards v. Department of Environmental Resources

Opinion by

Judge Crumlish, Jr.,

This is an appeal by Richard Edwards, Sr. and Dolores Edwards, his wife (condemnees), from a judgment entered in the Court of Common Pleas of Lacka*373wanna County awarding condemnees $72,000 in damages for their fee interest in an eighty acre tract of farm land and buildings condemned by the then Department of Forests and Waters under the authority of the Project 70 Land Acquisition and Borrowing Act, Act of June 22, 1964, Spec. Bess., P. L. 131, 72 P.S. §3946.1 et seq. The award increased by $8,000 the amount of damages allocated by the trial judge sitting Without…