State ex rel. Department of Highways v. Busch

My brethren of the majority have seen fit to reduce the trial court’s award by some thirty thousand dollars upon the deduction that the landowners should be paid only the raw acreage value of this 7.4-acre tract ($3,250 per acre, totalling $24,000) instead of the amount by which it is valued for ready sale as subdivision lots ($52,232.50). By so doing, the majority not only disregards attaching any weight whatsoever to the trial court’s considered evaluation of the testimony of the various appraisers and of the factual circumstances pertinent to this particular case — it also accomplishes, in…