Packard v. Bergen Neck Railway Co.
Supreme Court of New Jersey
This writ of error was to the Circuit Court of the county of Hudson, in case of an appeal to that court from the award •of commissioners in a proceeding to condemn land of the • -plaintiff in error for the use of the road of the defendant in terror. Argued at November Term, 1891, before Beasley, Chief -'Justice, and Justices Depue and Van Syckel.
1Opinion of the Court
*230The opinion of the court was delivered by
Beasley, Chief Justice.
After a careful examination' •of the proceedings at the trial of this cause, our conclusion is-that the judgment should be affirmed.
In arriving at this result, we have been encountered by a single difficulty. It seems to us that the rule by which the damage done to the lands of the plaintiff in error was to be appraised, was not strictly correct. That rule was thus expounded : The jury, after being told that they were at liberty to blend in their estimate of the damages the value of the land taken and the damages done to the…
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