Court Opinion

ID: 9707026
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 01:59:11.647498+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:37:16.986667
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Dissenting Opinion by
Mr. Chief Justice Bell :
I dissent and would grant a new trial, because the jury’s verdict is not only against the great weight of the evidence * — far beyond even the value of the property fixed by the owner’s own witness and three times the value fixed by the Commonwealth’s witness — but is so shocking as to be clearly a miscarriage of Justice. Feltovich v. City of Sharon, 409 Pa. 314, 186 A. 2d 247; Frisina v. Stanley, 409 Pa. 5, 185 A. 2d 580; Bohner v. Eastern Express, Inc., 405 Pa. 463, 175 A. 2d 864; Clewell v. Pummer, 388 Pa. 592, 131 A. 2d 375.

 As to the award of a jury of view, see Mazur v. Commonwealth, 390 Pa. 148, 134 A. 2d 669; as to the weight to be given the testimony of an owner of property, see Lenik Condemnation Case, 404 Pa. 257, 172 A. 2d 316.