State v. Reid

Appellant filed its complaint for condemnation of certain real estate of appellees. To the award of the appraisers, appellees excepted, and, upon trial by jury, judgment was rendered in favor of appellees, from which this appeal is taken. Appellant assigns as error that the court erred in overruling its motion for a new trial. The motion for new trial is based upon grounds which present for review the method of proof, as well as the measure of damages sustained by appellees. The trial court confined the proof (and also the instructions) to the theory that the damages could be proved by asking…