Commonwealth, Department of Highways v. Finley

PALMORE, Judge.

The Highway Department appeals from a judgment of the Scott Circuit Court awarding $37,500 to J. L. Finley and wife as compensation and damages resulting from the acquisition of 7.96 acres of their 50-acre farm located on U. S. 460 about one mile east of Georgetown. It is contended that prejudicial error occurred in three respects, as follows:

1. James H. Reynolds, a professional land appraiser who testified for the owners, had made an appraisal of the Finley tract in 1956 for his employer, Equitable Life Assurance Society, for the purpose of enabling Equitable to apportion an…