Bartlett v. City of Medford

This is a petition for the assessment of damages caused by a taking of real estate by the defendant on July 8,1924, to widen Salem Street and Riverside Avenue in Medford. The petitioner’s property, consisting of five thousand two hundred and eighty-five square feet of land with a brick building thereon, was located at the corner of the two streets. The city took two thousand and seventy-three feet of this land and rendered valueless the portion of the building which remained after the taking.

The testimony of the petitioner tended to prove that before the taking his front land was worth $18…