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ney, or any other party, except as aforesaid, shall be permitted to make
any statement or remark to the jury or in their presence relative to said
property.

An. Code, sec. 7A. 1916, ch. 117.

8. The Court may, in its discretion, permit the opening statements of
counsel to be made before the jury is sent to view the premises; and the
Court also may, in its discretion, send the jury to view said premises, as
provided in Section 7, in charge either of the sheriff as therein provided,
or of a bailiff of the Court.

An. Code, sec. 8. 1912, ch. 117. 1914, ch. 463, sec. 9.

9. After said view, and the jury has returned to said Court, the trial of
the issues of law and fact in the case, relative to the right to condemn said
land, and the damages which will be occasioned to the defendant owner or
owners thereof by the taking, use and occupation thereof by the petitioner,
and the amount of just compensation therefor to each defendant, and of all
other issues which may properly arise in said case, shall be proceeded with
before said Court and jury in the same manner and under the same rules of
law and practice, pertaining to the admissibility of evidence, the instruc-
tions of the Court, and all other matters arising under said proceedings, as
in other civil cases, except as herein otherwise provided.

Either party may except to any ruling of the Court, admitting or exclud-
ing evidence, or granting or rejecting instructions, or made upon any other
motion, exceptation or proceeding in the cause, in the usual method of trials
of civil cases, and in case of appeal as hereinafter provided, bills of excep-
tions shall be presented, settled and signed according to the prevailing prac-
tice in said Court.

The burden of proof being upon petitioner to show his right and power to con-
demn, and the necessity for condemning, he is entitled to open and close case. Gen-
erally speaking, burden of proof is upon the party who inaugurates proceeding;
hence he has right to open and close. Kenly v. Washington County R. R. Co., 129
Md. 7.

An. Code, sec: 9. 1912, ch. 117. 1914, ch. 463, sec. 10.

10. Any person who has not been made a party to said proceedings,
who shall have, or claim to have any interest in the property sought to be
condemned, may voluntarily intervene in said case, at any time before the
trial of the same, and upon petition may, by order of said Court, be made
a party defendant to said proceedings upon such terms and conditions as the
Court shall direct, and thereupon may take part and defend in the trial of
said case, and shall be bound by said judgment in the same way and to the
same extent as if such person intervening had been made an original party
defendant in said petition.

An. Code, sec. 10. 1912, ch. 117. 1914, ch. 463, sec. 11.

11. Any verdict rendered by said jury may be excepted to within the
time allowed by the rules of Court in other civil cases; or within the time
pf said rules of Court, either party may file a motion for a new trial, or