City of Houston v. Autrey

WILSON, Justice.

In a condemnation case the City says it was error to permit the landowner to call .as a witness and adduce testimony from a professional appraiser the City had employed to evaluate damages resulting from the taking. Although it engaged and paid him to appraise the value of the property taken and damage to the remainder, con-demnor did not call the appraiser as a witness. Appellee did so; and elicited the foregoing facts, the findings of the witness as to what he ascertained land on the street in question had “sold for in that area per square foot”, and his opinion as to damage…