Smith v. Commonwealth

This is a petition * to recover compensation for a large tract of land on Greylock mountain chiefly covered with wood taken under St. 1898, c. 543, for the Greylock State Reservation, a mountain park in the county of Berkshire. Flowing through the land was a stream called Hopper Brook.

1. Apparently the principal element of value in controversy at the trial related to the quality and quantity of standing wood and timber, and the ease and expense of marketing it as lumber. No evidence was shown to have been offered by the petitioner as a part of his case touching the use of Hopper Brook as a…