Boston Chamber of Commerce v. City of Boston
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS. The facts are stated in the opinion. The market value of the “locus,” the land taken for this street at the time of the taking, was 160,000. Consequently, the owners n: fee simple of the land unencumbered were entitled to .;er in this proceeding $60,000. Boom Company v. Patterson, 08 U. S. 403. In determining the damages sustained by an owner, of land taken by eminent domain, the use which the landowner av, the time…
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ERROR TO THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS. The facts are stated in the opinion. The market value of the “locus,” the land taken for this street at the time of the taking, was 160,000. Consequently, the owners n: fee simple of the land unencumbered were entitled to .;er in this proceeding $60,000. Boom Company v. Patterson, 08 U. S. 403. In determining the damages sustained by an owner, of land taken by eminent domain, the use which the landowner av, the time of taking happens to ho making of his land is not the only thing to be considered The use which the owner of the land…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Holmes
This is a petition for the assessment of damages caused by the laying out of a public street over 2955 square feet of land at the apex of a triangle between India Street and Central Wharf Street in Boston, the latter being a private way between Milk Street and Atlantic Avenue, laid out by the same order as part of the same street. The Chamber of Commerce had a building at the base of the triangle and owned the fee of the land taken. The Central Wharf and Wet Dock Corporation, which owned other land abutting on the new street, had an easement of way, light and air over the land in question,…
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