345 Mass. 775 | Mass. | 1963
Exceptions overruled. This is a petition for the assessment of damages under G. L. e. 79 for the taking of a portion of the petitioner’s land and buildings in Worcester. The ease was tried to a jury. The case is here on the respondent’s exceptions. An exception was lodged at the exclusion by the trial judge of testimony on the amount of Federal and State documentary stamps on a deed of the premises, part of which was taken. This deed was given (prior to the taking) to the petitioner by a corporation almost wholly owned by it. The judge ruled that the deed was not the