Massachusetts-American Water Co. v. Grafton Water District (No. 1)

After the trial of an eminent domain proceeding in the Superior Court, a jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff in the amount of $5,600,000. The defendant appeals from a judgment entered on that verdict1 and from the denial of its motion for a new trial. We affirm.

The plaintiff and its predecessor, formed pursuant to St. 1886, c. 211, supplied water to the inhabitants of the towns of Grafton and Millbury from 1893, until February 26, 1988, when the defendant, by duly recorded orders, took certain real and personal property of the plaintiff then being used in its water service function. The…