Stempel v. Bucks County

BODLEY, J.,

In this eminent domain case cross appeals were filed from the board of views award of $30,000. During the trial before the undersigned and a jury, the condemnee’s appraiser fixed the loss at $35,000, whereas the appraiser for the condemnor opined that it was $21,000. The usual “battle of the experts” was on. The jury rendered a verdict in the sum of $26,700, thus resolving the problem created by the not unexpected great disparity in the competing experts’ opinions of values and damages suffered. The dissatisfied condemnee has filed a motion for a new trial which we here consider…