Pennsylvania Railroad v. City of Reading
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeals, Nos. 64 and 65, Jan. T., 1915, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Berks Co., March T., 1913, Nos. 59 and 62, on verdicts for plaintiff in case of Pennsylvania Railroad Company v. City of Reading. Appeal from award of viewers in condemnation proceedings. Before Endlich, P. J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. Verdicts for plaintiff for $1,852 in each case, and judgment thereon. Plaintiff appealed.
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Appeals, Nos. 64 and 65, Jan. T., 1915, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Berks Co., March T., 1913, Nos. 59 and 62, on verdicts for plaintiff in case of Pennsylvania Railroad Company v. City of Reading. Appeal from award of viewers in condemnation proceedings. Before Endlich, P. J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. Verdicts for plaintiff for $1,852 in each case, and judgment thereon. Plaintiff appealed. Errors assigned, among others, were various rulings on evidence.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Moschzisker,
The questions involved in these two appeals are identical and will be disposed of in one opinion. The plaintiff secured verdicts in the court below for damages suffered by it through the partial taking, under the right of eminent domain, of two adjoining properties; it appealed because dissatisfied with the amounts of the verdicts, and assigns for error several rulings on the evidence, certain remarks, of counsel for the defendant and the presiding judge, and the refusal to grant a new trial.
*21A witness called by the defendant to testify to market values stated…
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