City of Detroit v. Barak

This is an appeal from a proceeding in eminent domain. The defendant-condemnee has raised an apparent conflict between certain procedures for instructing the jury in condemnation cases1 and GCR 1963, 514 which authorizes general or special verdicts.

The issue:

In a condemnation case, may a jury which was instructed to find and return a specific date of taking and the value of the property on that date, ignore the uncontroverted evidence of value for the property on the exact date so found and find a value within the range of all the evidence as to value?

*166The factual setting is not in dispute.…