Ross v. Commissioners of the Palisades Interstate Park

The opinion of the court was delivered bjr

Black, J.

This case is an appeal from the verdict of a jury rendered in a condemnation proceeding, tried at the Ber*462gen Circuit. The verdict of the jury was eight thousand ($8,000) dollars. The award of the commissioners was six thousand six hundred ($6,600) dollars. The amount of land sought to be taken was three and six (3.6) tenths of an acre.

The land under condemnation is situate in the extreme northerly part of the borough of Fort Lee, Bergen county, and lies between a line drawn parallel with the Hudson river one hundred and fifty (150) feet west…