Breckwood Real Estate Co. v. City of Springfield

This is a petition for assessment by a jury of damages for the alleged taking of certain parcels of land for schoolhouse purposes. The petitioner alleged that the city took its lands by virtue of two orders; one passed July 21, 1924, (copy of which was recorded in the registry of deeds on July 29,- 1924,) and the other passed December 22, 1924, (copy of which was recorded in the registry of deeds on December 30, 1924). The case is here upon a report by a judge of the Superior Court.

The respondent denies that by the orders before referred *113to the petitioner’s land was taken by eminent domain;…