Walker v. City of Medford

This is a petition filed in the Superior Court for the assessment of damages for the alleged taking of land of the petitioner. Upon the facts to which the parties agreed the trial judge subject to the plaintiff’s exception found and ruled that the taking was invalid and reported the case to this court upon the following terms: “If the *162Supreme Judicial Court should decide that the taking was not valid, the petition is to be dismissed without costs; otherwise the action is to stand for trial.” The land in dispute is on Main Street near the center of Medford. On October 11, 1927, the board of…