Cassidy Case

By regular statutory proceedings the city of Bangor took a parcel of land, with buildings thereon, for public use in changing the alignment of a public way, in said city, under the authority of R. S., Chap. 27, Sec. 76, and, after hearing, the county commissioners of Penobscot County, on petition of the municipal officers determined the damages in the sum of $33,976.68, ordering the city to pay that sum to the appellants.

The latter, considering themselves aggrieved by the estimate of damages of the county commissioners took an appeal to the superior court, which resulted in a verdict for…