RITE MEDIA, INC. v. SECRETARY OF THE MASSACHUSETTS HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT


429 Mass. 814 (1999)

RITE MEDIA, INC. v. SECRETARY OF THE MASSACHUSETTS HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

June 25, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard M. Singer for the plaintiff.

Howard R. Meshnick, Assistant Attorney General, for the defendants.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., ABRAMS, LYNCH, GREANEY, FRIED, & IRELAND, JJ.


WILKINS, C.J.

On March 3, 1994, the Commonwealth took by eminent domain for highway purposes land owned by Sidney and Lawrence Fruman on Albany Street in Boston. At that time, the plaintiff, Rite Media, Inc. (Rite Media), had a lease with the Frumans pursuant to which Rite Media maintained a large billboard on the Fruman property. The billboard was approximately three and one-half stories high and supported by steel beams sunk into concrete footings. The Frumans and...

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