NICHOLS v. COMMONWEALTH


331 Mass. 581 (1954)

121 N.E.2d 56

MARY E. NICHOLS & others vs. COMMONWEALTH.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Essex.

July 20, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clement J. Redmond, (Stephen P. Weston & Kendall E. Hobbs with him,) for the petitioners.

David L. Winer, Assistant Attorney General, for the Commonwealth.

Present: QUA, C.J., RONAN, WILKINS, SPALDING, & COUNIHAN, JJ.


COUNIHAN, J.

This is a petition for damages under G.L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 79,1 resulting from the taking of land in Danvers for the construction of a limited access State highway by establishing a new location of an existing highway known as the Newburyport Turnpike. The taking was made by the department of public works of the Commonwealth under the provisions of G.L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 81, § 7C, inserted by St. 1943, c. 397, as later amended...

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