State Ex Rel. Road Commission v. Wood

CROCKETT, Chief Justice:

The State Road Commission took from defendants by eminent domain proceedings an entire 7.23-acre piece of vacant land situated between 300 and 400 ’North and between 1200 and 1350 West in Cedar City, for construction of the new 1-15 freeway. The jury placed the value at' $24,582 and-rendered a verdict for that amount.

The Commission appeals, contending that the trial court erred in admitting evidence concerning sales and values of certain prop-' erties not sufficiently similar to defendants” property to provide a proper basis for adjudicating its value.

In 1956 the…