NAT. R. PASS. CORP. v. 25,900 SQ. FT. PARCEL OF LAND

Nos. 899, 900, Dockets 84-7825, 84-7881.

766 F.2d 685 (1985)

NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER CORPORATION, A District of Columbia Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellee, Cross-Appellant, v. ONE 25,900 SQUARE FOOT MORE OR LESS PARCEL OF LAND IN THE CITY OF NEW LONDON, COUNTY OF NEW LONDON, STATE OF CONNECTICUT; Ida A. DeNoia, and June D. Barrows, Executrix of the Estate of Vito J. DeNoia, Defendants, Ida A. DeNoia and June D. Barrows, Executrix of the Estate of Vito J. DeNoia, Defendants-Appellants, Cross-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided June 27, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allan B. Taylor, Hartford, Conn. (Thomas J. Groark, Jr., Day, Berry & Howard, Hartford, Conn., of counsel), for defendants-appellants.

Emmet L. Cosgrove, New London, Conn. (Waller, Smith & Palmer, New London, Conn., of counsel), for plaintiff-appellee.

Before MESKILL and PRATT, Circuit Judges, and PALMIERI, District Judge.


MESKILL, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from a judgment entered in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut after a five day jury trial before Goettel, J., sitting by designation. Federal jurisdiction is based on section 305(d) of the Rail Passenger Service Act, 45 U.S.C. § 545(d) (1982).

The jury's verdict valued appellants' condemned land at $122,450. Appellant landowners appealed, claiming that the trial court erred...

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