Leonard v. State

Staley, Jr., J.

Appeal by the State from a judgment of the Court of Claims which awarded damages for the appropriation of lands for highway purposes. Essential to the award of damages was a finding that the fair and reasonable market value of claimant’s property before the appropriation was $249,000. The court, in arriving at this valuation, used a land value as testified to by claimant’s expert, and to this added the building values as found by the State’s expert, and then added the value of walls and fencing taken based upon reproduction cost less depreciation. The valuation placed upon the…