105.10 Probate court; jury to retire with petition, map, blank verdict; form of verdict.

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Sec. 10.

To assist the jury in arriving at their verdict, the probate court may allow the jury, when they retire, to take with them the petition filed in the case and a map showing the location of the proposed improvement and of each and all parcels of property to be taken, and may also submit to them a blank verdict, which may be as follows:

PART I.

We find that it is ............... necessary to take the private property described in the petition in this cause, for the use and benefit of the public for the proposed public improvement.

PART II.

The just compensation to be paid for such private property we have ascertained and determined, and hereby award as follows:

Description of each of the several parcels of private property to be taken. Owners, occupants and others interested in each parcel. Compensation. To whom payable.

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The different descriptions of the property and the names of the occupants, owners and others interested therein may be inserted in said blank verdict, under the direction of the probate court, before it is submitted to the jury, or it may be done by the jury.

History: 1895, Act 215, Eff. Aug. 30, 1895 ;-- Am. 1899, Act 136, Imd. Eff. June 21, 1899 ;-- CL 1915, 3145 ;-- CL 1929, 2069 ;-- CL 1948, 105.10