Arnerich v. Almaden Vineyards Corp.

Defendant appeals from a judgment based on a jury verdict that it take nothing for severance damages alleged to have been caused to defendant’s main lands by plaintiff condemning an easement for underground pipe lines across the extreme northwest corner of defendant’s lands. The judgment appealed from was rendered on a trial of a portion of this proceeding. The first trial in a determination that plaintiff had the legal right to condemn the easement, and in a verdict for defendant of $10 for the actual land taken for the easement, and $2,500 severance damages. A new trial was granted solely…