THORBURN v. STATE HIGHWAY BOARD

No. 30-70.

285 A.2d 755 (1971)

Janet and Edward THORBURN v. STATE HIGHWAY BOARD.

Supreme Court of Vermont, Orange.

June 1, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Black & Plante, White River Junction, for plaintiffs.

James M. Jeffords, Atty. Gen., and Richard M. Finn, Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendant.

Before HOLDEN, C. J., and SHANGRAW, BARNEY, SMITH and KEYSER, JJ.


BARNEY, Justice.

This is an appeal by the plaintiffs of the award in a highway condemnation case. The only issue in this kind of litigation is the quantity of damages, and the plaintiffs allege that the jury in this case went astray. It is their position that the verdict, properly viewed, demonstrates that the jury either failed to make an award for water rights incontrovertibly taken, or valued them, or the real estate, at a figure insupportably small in view of...

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