Muscoda Bridge Co. v. Grant County

Two of appellant’s contentions relate merely to matters of practice and these will be first considered. The defendant made a timely demand for a special verdict and as such verdict requested submission of two questions: (1) What was the fair market value of the strip of land taken? and (2) In what amount, if any, was the fair market value of the real estate of plaintiff which was not taken damaged by the taking of the strip-, considering only the uses to which the real estate was put at the time of the taking? The court refused these questions and submitted to the jury one question : What sum…