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LEVINSON v. COMMONWEALTH

395 Pa. 613 (1959)

Levinson v. Commonwealth, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

May 28, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank Edward Roda, Chief Right of Way Counsel, with him Donald Blanken and Joseph R. Ritchie, Assistant Attorneys General, John R. Rezzolla, Chief Counsel, Department of Highways, and Thomas D. McBride, Attorney General, for Commonwealth, appellant.

John J. Collins, with him William F. Heefner, and Curtin and Heefner, for appellees.

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

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE MUSMANNO, May 28, 1959:

The plaintiffs owned in Bucks County a tract of land embracing an area of 16 1/2 acres. In 1953 the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, through eminent domain proceedings, condemned approximately a half acre of this land for the purpose of widening and relocating a road which bordered the plaintiff's property. A board of viewers awarded the plaintiffs $25,000 in damages. On appeal to the court of common pleas, the jury returned...

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