D'ANGELO v. Director of Public Works

This is a petition for the assessment of damages for the taking 'by the state of a portion of the petitioners’ land abutting on Old County Road in the town of Smithfield. After a jury trial in the superior court which resulted in a verdict for the petitioners in the sum of $4,520 they moved for a new trial on the usual grounds and for the reason that the damages were grossly inadequate. The case is here on their bill of exceptions containing an exception to the trial justice’s denial of such motion and sixty-three other exceptions to rulings on the admission of evidence, to portions of his…