Ultima-Trimble, Ltd. v. Department of Transportation

Beasley, Presiding Judge.

The condemnee appeals from the award of the jury, reduced to judgment, being dissatisfied with the admission of certain evidence and with one of the court’s jury charges. This was the second trial of the land condemnation action, the judgment following the first having been reversed. Dept. of Transp. v. Ultima-Trimble, 204 Ga. App. 309 (418 SE2d 820) (1992). Pretaking matters are the subject in this appeal as well.

1. Condemnee had divided the land into lots for residential development. Lots sold after the taking sold for less than lots sold prior to it. At issue was…