Board of Supervisors v. Smith

By JUDGE JACK B. STEVENS

This matter is before the Court upon the Board’s two Exceptions to the Condemnation Commissioners’ Report determining the fair market value of defendants’ land taken for the Springfield Bypass Road project and damages to the residue of defendants’ land from the take. Both Exceptions are predicated upon evidentiary rulings of the Court which precluded the Commissioners from hearing certain evidence.

Exception No. 1 concerns the Court’s ruling which precluded an expert witness for the Board from giving his opinion that the defendants here could have been required to…