State Highway Commission of New Jersey v. Lincoln Terminal Corp.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Case, J.

The state highway commission appeals from a judgment entered upon a jury verdict of $375,000 in the Hudson County Circuit Court before Judge Thomas Brown. That trial was on an appeal from a report and award of commissioners on the condemnation of lands owned by Lincoln Terminal Corporation and taken by the state highway commission for the purposes of the highway construction known as the “viaduct.” The lands bound on the Passaic river and extend longitudinally in an easterly direction through remaining lands of the owner.

Appellant’s first point…