State Highway Commission v. Davis

Appeal by the State Highway Commission from a pretrial evidentiary ruling in favor of respondents limiting the introduction of evidence for the purpose of determining damages to the date of the taking, July 30, 1968.

Respondents (hereinafter referred to as defendants) owned an “L” shaped parcel of land in the northeast quadrant on the Maple Road-Telegraph Road intersection in Bloomfield Township. A two-story veterinary hospital is located near the front of the property.

For purposes of highway construction, the Highway Commission proposed to condemn and take portions of the parcel, consisting…