Bremerton School District 100-C v. Hibbard

This is an action by Bremerton school district 100-C, Kitsap county, to condemn, for school purposes, approximately ten acres of a thirty-acre tract of unimproved real property. April 9, 1956, the court entered an order adjudicating public use. The question of valuation was tried to the court without a jury. The owner appeals from the judgment of September 4, 1956, granting her $15,500 for the property.

Appellant urges (1) that the court erred when it admitted the testimony of Charles F. Williams, an appraiser for the school district, because (a) the witness was not shown to have the necessary…