Ark. State Highway Comm. v. Ponder

The State Highway Commission has brought an eminent domain proceeding to condemn certain land in Independence county. Several of the defendant landowners filed discovery interrogatories, Ark. Stat. Ann. §§ 28-355 and -356 (Eepl. 1962), seeking to obtain the names of the persons who had appraised the land for the Commission, a copy of the instructions given to these appraisers, a copy of the appraisals, information about the appraisers’ study of comparable sales, and similar data. The trial judge held that the opinions and appraisals of the prospective expert witnesses were privileged, but he…