Hanna v. County of Hampden

This is a petition for an assessment of damages, alleged to have been sustained by the petitioner through acts of the respondents in the taking by them of lands and the construction of streets in West Springfield, under the provisions of St. 1915, c. 252. The petitioner’s claim for damages is based upon the allegation that he had a leasehold estate in the buildings and in portions of the land upon which they were situated, shown on a plan admitted in evidence.

The record title to the land at the time of such taking, on October 6, 1920, stood in the name of Edward S. Goldthwaite. The county…