Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court November 15, 1859 (First Church in Boston v. City of Boston)

Metcalf, J.*

There can be no doubt that, in estimating the damage to a landowner, caused by the laying out of a public street over his land, neither the city authorities nor a jury are confined to the value of the land covered by the street. He is also entitled to the amount of the damage done to his remaining land by the laying out of the street. Commonwealth v. Coombs, 2 Mass. 492.