State Ex Rel. Department of Transportation v. Hughes

Plaintiff, State of Oregon, seeks reversal and remand in a condemnation case in which the jury returned a verdict awarding defendants just compensation in the amount of $53,500. The trial comí subsequently awarded costs and attorney fees to defendants in the amount of $23,550.53. That amount was later reduced to $17,723.75 on defendants’ own motion. Plaintiffs only assignment of error concerns the trial court’s grant of defendants’ motion in lim-ine excluding evidence of contaminants found on the condemned land after plaintiff had filed the condemnation action. We reverse and remand for a new…