DI MARZIO v. Providence Redevelopment Agency

This is a petition for the assessment of damages by a jury resulting from the taking of certain land belonging to the petitioners by the respondent agency under the provisions of public laws 1956, chapter 3654, article 12 (now general laws 1956, chaps. 45-31, 45-32, 45-33), entitled “Redevelopment act of 1956.”

The case was heard before a justice of the superior court sitting with a jury. After the hearing the jury awarded petitioners damages in the sum of $22,500. To such verdict the trial justice added the sum of $3,150 as interest from the date of the taking to the date of the verdict at…