State Highway Commission v. Compton

Defendants appeal from a judgment determining the value of their land taken by the plaintiff in this condemnation action, asserting several errors. The first relates to the rejection by the court of evidence concerning the fair rental income obtainable for the property.

The Compton property is located on the east side of McLoughlin Boulevard, a major arterial in Portland, Oregon. The block on which the property is located contains 12 lots and lies immediately south *267of the Ross Island Bridge and close to the downtown area. Before the taking, defendants owned nine of these lots, six of them…