Port Townsend Southern Railroad v. Nolan

This is an appeal from a decree of appropriation in a condemnation case. But two errors are assigned. First, the refusal of the court to permit the appellant to testify to the market value of the property sought to be appropriated ; and second, the refusal to admit evidence of the loss sustained through the appropriation of the property by taking and rendering valueless the saloon license issued to the appellant by the town of Tenino. In support of the first assignment it is contended: (1) That the owner is always competent to testify to the value of his own property; and (2) that in any…