State Highway Commission v. Lacey

This is a landowner’s appeal from a jury’s award of $7,500 in a condemnation action.

The tract contained 17.31 acres of which the state took 11.65 acres, leaving the balance of 5.66 acres adjoining a section line 'but without access to presently graded road. Defendant complains of one instruction given and one refused by the trial .court. The instruction given was:

“Evidence has been introduced * * * relating to some other sales of property in that locality * * * that evidence as to the selling price of those other tracts is no direct evidence as to the value of this particular property which…