Connecticut River Power Co. v. Dickinson
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Petition, for the assessment of damages for land taken under the flowage act. Trial by jury. Transferred from the October term, 1908, of tbe superior court by Chamberlin, J. LaFell Dickinson, one of the defendants, was called by the plaintiffs as an expert upon the subject of land values.
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Petition, for the assessment of damages for land taken under the flowage act. Trial by jury. Transferred from the October term, 1908, of tbe superior court by Chamberlin, J. LaFell Dickinson, one of the defendants, was called by the plaintiffs as an expert upon the subject of land values. Having testified that the defendants had dealt largely in lands for some twenty years, he was allowed to testify, subject to exception, that with one exception he knew of no one in the vicinity who was as large a landowner. Having stated what in his opinion the land in question was worth under existing…
1Opinion of the Court
Walker J.
No error was committed in allowing the witness Dickinson to be asked whether he and his estate have acquired lands so that they are the largest landowners in the vicinity. Although he was one of the defendants, the plaintiff had the right to call him as a witness and subject him to cross-examination upon the issue involved. P. S., c. 224, s. 15. As he had testified that they had dealt largely in lands for many years, it was competent for him to testify as to the extent of his ownership of such property, because that fact would naturally tend to show what his qualifications were,…
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