State Highway Commission v. Parker

This is an appeal by the State of Oregon through its Highway Commission from a judgment which the circuit court entered condemning and appropriating to the state’s use a tract of real property, described in the complaint and owned by the three defendants, upon the payment by the state of the sum of $3,740. The state as plaintiff-appellant deems the sum excessive.

In appealing, the state submits two assignments of error. The issue which they present is sufficiently revealed by the first of them which reads as follows:

“The court on direct examination of witness H. W. Snell erred in sustaining…