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Title: Nicholas Penna Et Al v. State Highway
Author : Supreme Court of Wisconsin
Release Date : January 23, 1961
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 60 KB

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This appeal is concerned with the amount of compensation a landowner is entitled to receive for land taken in condemnation proceedings. The plaintiffs were owners of a strip of land in Dorset, Vermont which bordered on Route 7. It contained about two and a half acres. On it were located a cottage and five tourist cabins. Three of the cabins were on the land at the time the plaintiffs purchased it in 1952 for the sum of $9,500. Two others had been added later by the plaintiffs at a cost of $4,300. The taking by the State Highway Board consisted of about one-half of the Pennas land, and it was the half upon which all the cabins were located. As a result the Pennas were left with the cottage, suitable for use as a residence, together with the land upon which it was situated, of a combined value of $2,500, but shorn of their tourist business. In these circumstances the Highway Board awarded the plaintiffs the sum of $9,050. With this sum the plaintiffs were dissatisfied, and, in the litigation which followed, the jury awarded them the sum of $12,500.00. The Highway Board, in turn, is dissatisfied with that figure and comes to us claiming that the verdict resulted from error in the courts instructions to the jury and its rulings on admission of evidence.