· 12/12/1956
Newton Girl Scout Council, Inc. v. Massachusetts Turnpike Authority
Citations
- 138 N.E.2d 769
- 335 Mass. 189
- 1956 Mass. LEXIS 602
How courts have described this case
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- specialized use of Girl Scout camping land constituted special circumstances that warranted use of DRC method to value taking of part of land by eminent domain
- “ [I]t is proper to determine market value from the intrinsic value of the property and from its value for the special purposes for which it is adopted and used” in cases “where ordinary methods will produce a miscarriage of justice”
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Judges: Cutteb, Wilkins, Ronan, Counihan, Whittemore, Cutter
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