The case involved an easement taken by eminent domain to test Red Line cars. (EDWARD ORDE/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS) An easement that the Massachusetts Department of Transportation took to use property in South Boston to test Red Line cars exceeded the scope of an easement taken years earlier by its predecessor in interest, the Supreme Judicial Court
Where an easement was taken by eminent domain in 2018 by the defendant the Department of Transportation, the plaintiff should be awarded compensation because the use of the property for a Red Line test track project exceeded the scope of an easement taken in 1991 by the defendant's predecessor in interest, the Department of Public