Lobao v. Commonwealth

1. Passing the absence of an offer of proof (see Ford v. Worcester, 339 Mass. 657, 658-662 [1959]), we hold that the judge did not abuse his discretion (Muzi v. Commonwealth, 335 Mass. 101, 106 [1956]) in refusing to allow the witness Mass to express his opinion (if he had one) of the highest and best use of the industrially zoned land lying along Route 1 in Danvers. No effort was made to qualify him as an appraiser. Contrast the Muzi case, supra, at 102-105. On the evidence, the witness’ experience as the owner of similarly zoned land in the vicinity had been confined to a single parcel…