Commonwealth, Department of Highways v. Shackleford

PALMORE, Judge.

This is one of several highway condemnation cases arising out of the relocation and reconstruction of U. S. 119 between Pineville and Harlan. As in Commonwealth, Dept. of Highways v. Slusher, Ky., 371 S.W.2d 851 (1963), Commonwealth, Dept. of Highways v. Howard, Ky., 375 S.W.2d 398 (1964), and Commonwealth, Dept. of Highways v. Lemar, Ky., 375 S.W.2d 678 (1964), it must be reversed for error in the refusal by the trial court to admit evidence of prices recently paid in private sales of comparable property. Appellees contend that the testimony was properly excluded because it-…