Colonial Acres, Inc. v. Town of North Reading

This is an amended petition for an assessment of damages under G. L. c. 79, § 14, following the taking by eminent domain of the petitioner’s land on May 1, 1969. The case is before us on the petitioner’s exceptions to the trial judge’s exclusion of evidence, to his refusal to give certain requested instructions to the jury, and to certain of the instructions given, all of which related to the trial judge’s refusal to allow the jury to consider the value of one of three parcels of the land as a potential site for a sanitary landfill, which use was claimed by the petitioner to be the highest…