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STATE ROADS COMM'N v. NEWMAN

[No. 417, September Term, 1967.]

251 Md. 566 (1968)

248 A.2d 341

STATE ROADS COMMISSION OF MARYLAND v. NEWMAN, ET UX.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided December 4, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Schuchman, Special Attorney, and Walter W. Claggett, Special Attorney, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, and Joseph D. Buscher, Special Assistant Attorney General, on the brief, for appellant.

Doris P. Scott and William B. Evans for appellees.

The cause was argued before HAMMOND, C.J., and MARBURY, McWILLIAMS, FINAN, SINGLEY and SMITH, JJ.

McWILLIAMS, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

A Cecil County jury awarded appellees (Newman) $33,007.28 for 745.87 square feet of land taken by appellant (Commission) for the construction of the "Elkton by-pass." Denouncing the verdict as "grossly excessive" the Commission adjures us to set it aside and remand the case, to the end, perchance, that the result of a second sortie will be less infelicitous. We are unmoved...

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