City of Fort Smith v. DeLaet

Certainly the verdicts in these cases seem extremely liberal, but I do not believe that we are justified in reversing the judgments on the lack of substantial evidence to support the verdicts on the record before us. As an appellate court, we are concerned only with errors of a trial court as a basis for reversal. This is a question never properly raised in the trial court, so it has not properly reached us.

There were two witnesses in addition to the owner who testified about values of the DeLaet lands and four, in addition to owner France, who testified about values of the latter’s property.…