Fritchey v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Mk. Justice Schaffer,

The Commonwealth appeals from the grant of a neAV trial in a proceeding to recover damages from it for the alleged appropriation of some of plaintiff’s property, in the Avidening and improving of a state highAvay, upon which her land abuts, in which proceeding the jury rendered a verdict in the Commonwealth’s favor.

The record is in a very unsatisfactory shape for review by an appellate court. Plaintiff, in what started out as an eminent domain proceeding to recover damages for the taking of some of her land and consequential injuries to the rest of her property,…