State Highway Commission v. Holt

The plaintiff commenced this action to condemn 1.05 acres of real property for the relocation of a portion of the Pacific Highway east of Creswell in Lane County, Oregon. The defendants, as owners of the real property, now appeal from the judgment entered on the verdict of the jury.

The defendants’ sole assignment of error is that the trial court erred in sustaining objections to testimony offered by the defendants relating to the cost to them of improvements placed on the land.

The record discloses that prior to the condemnation proceedings the defendants had commenced the erection of a…