LEHIGH VA. TR. CO. v. PA. TURNPIKE COMM.


401 Pa. 135 (1960)

Lehigh Valley Trust Company, Appellant, v. Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

June 29, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip Price, with him William B. Butz, Robert K. Young, and Barnes, Dechert, Price, Myers & Rhoads, for plaintiff.

Irving Wilson Coleman, for Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, defendant.

Before JONES, C.J., BELL, MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN and EAGEN, JJ.


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE COHEN, June 29, 1960:

These are cross appeals from a judgment entered on a jury verdict in an eminent domain proceeding brought by the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission. The condemnee seeks a new trial while the Commission alleges error in the lower court's increasing the award of detention damages.

On January 18, 1954, the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission condemned certain lands owned by the condemnee in preparation for the construction...

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