Roy v. State

The State’s exceptions to the admission of evidence, its motion to strike the plaintiff’s testimony as to market value and damage by the taking and its motion to set aside the verdict are based primarily on the contention that the plaintiff “did not know what market value meant, or if he did, he was not willing to testify objectively about it with reference to his own land.” Our examination of the three volumes of testimony and the exhibits in this case confirms the concession of plaintiff’s counsel that “although Roy was an expert real estate subdivider, he was not an expert testifier.” The…