WORCESTER v. COMMONWEALTH


345 Mass. 99 (1962)

185 N.E.2d 633

CITY OF WORCESTER vs. COMMONWEALTH.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Worcester.

November 5, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry P. Grady, Assistant City Solicitor, for the petitioner.

Eugene G. Panarese, Assistant Attorney General, for the Commonwealth.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., SPALDING, WHITTEMORE, CUTTER, KIRK, & SPIEGEL, JJ.


WILKINS, C.J.

This petition under G.L.c. 79, the eminent domain procedural statute, is for the assessment of damages for the taking of two contiguous parcels of the city's land. The takings were made in May, 1961, under G.L.c. 79, and St. 1956, c. 718, entitled, "An Act providing for an accelerated highway program." One parcel was used for school purposes, and the other was park land. Each parcel concededly was not held...

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