Pettijohn v. State

Defendant, State of Nebraska Board of Educational Lands and Funds (Board), appeals from a jury verdict in the District Court for Brown County, Nebraska, determining $14,700 as the value of permitted improvements owned by lessee-plaintiff, Carleton Pettijohn, Jr., as located on leased school lands being sold by the Board. Defendant claims as error: (1) The admission of evidence of a value of improvements other than the contributory value of *273the improvements to the land; (2) refusal, as evidence of impeachment, of plaintiff’s personal property tax schedule; (3) refusal of defendant’s tendered…