Department of Transportation v. English

Deen, Presiding Judge.

1. In this eminent domain case the appellant condemnor contends that in three instances it was denied a thorough and sifting cross examination of English, the owner of property condemned for the widening of Peachtree Street. As to ground 4, the complaint is that the witness was not allowed to be questioned about why the contiguous property (separate parcels owned by the defendant and three neighbors) was surveyed as one tract. The witness answered that it was necessary to go to a beginning point some distance above his property, and that he had only his property…