Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority v. Kraft

The Guadalupe-Bianco River Authority (“the Authority”) questions whether Marvin Kraft, Sr., demonstrated that his expert witness’s real estate appraisal opinion was reliable under Gammill v. Jack Williams Chevrolet, Inc. 1 Kraft responds that his expert used the judicially approved comparable sales methodology to arrive at his opinion. But the expert based his opinion on local sales that were not comparable to the condemned land. Therefore his opinion was not rehable, and the trial court abused its discretion by admitting his testimony. Because the court of appeals held otherwise, 2 we…