Commonwealth v. Conatser

EBLEN, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the McCreary Circuit Court awarding the ap-pellees a total of twenty thousand dollars for property taken by condemnation. The appellant asserts that the damages are excessive and that prejudicial error was committed in admitting incompetent evidence and giving improper instructions.

The appellees own a parcel of land, in Whitley City, Ky., three hundred feet square, which had been divided into twenty-four lots, each twenty-five feet by one hundred and fifty feet. On one corner of this land there is a brick residence, and other structures…