# Shotts v. Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission

> Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · July 1, 1968 · 431 Pa. 83

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9707026

## Case

- **Full name:** Shotts v. Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, Appellant
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- **Decided:** July 1, 1968
- **Citations:** 431 Pa. 83; 243 A.2d 326; 1968 Pa. LEXIS 593
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Bell
- **Judges:** Bell, Musmanno, Jones, Cohen, Eagen, O'Brien, Roberts
- **Cited by:** 3 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

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 .

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