Garner v. Arkansas State Highway Commission

Lawson Cloninger, Judge.

On June 26,1980, appellee filed its Complaint and Declaration of Taking, condemning one acre of appellants’ 1.6 acre tract of land for construction of a new Ouachita River bridge and approaches. The tract fronts on Lake Hamilton and Highway 70 in Garland County, west of Hot Springs.

On May 30, 1981, a jury verdict was returned, awarding appellants $60,000 for the taking of the land. On this appeal, appellants charge that the trial court erred in refusing to permit the jury to consider, as evidence of market value, a contract of sale dated August 20, 1979, by which…