Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court November 5, 1875 (Boston & Maine Railroad v. Montgomery)

By the Court.

The bill of exceptions shows that the witness was allowed to estimate in money the value of the land taken, and leaves it at least doubtful whether he was not allowed to estimate in the same way the amount of the inconveniences resulting to a farmer from being deprived of access to the river — • so that the consequent diminution in value would be ascertained by deducting the one sum