State v. Cooper

TORBERT, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered on a jury verdict in an eminent domain proceeding in which Lilia Cooper was awarded the sum of $37,000 as damages for land taken for use as a right-of-way for public roads. We reverse.

The State urges that error occurred when certain testimony of an expert witness was admitted over timely objection. More specifically, that appellee’s witness Petersen should not have been allowed to testify as to the sum of money paid the City of Robertsdale for its property located near that of Cooper because such sale was not a voluntary one but…