Hicks Realty Associates v. State

Appeal from a judgment of the Court of Claims awarding respondents $125,000 for an improved parcel of property located in the business district of the City of Amsterdam appropriated by the State pursuant to sections 30 and 349-e of the Highway Law. There is no dispute to the $38,000 allotted by the trial court as the value of the land; the sole disagreement is as to the $87,000 valuation placed on the improvements located thereon. The trial court properly rejected respondents’ proffered comparable sales as not being truly comparable (Waldenmaier v. State of New York, 33 A D 2d 75, 77) and…