Commonwealth, Department of Highways v. Brumback

STEINFELD, Justice.

From a judgment in a condemnation case the Commonwealth appeals, complaining that the instructions were erroneous. They established the maximum and minimum limits the jury could find as the value of the appellees’ property before and after some of it was taken. We held in Commonwealth, Department of Highways v. Spillman, Ky., 489 S.W.2d 811, 814 (1973), that this type of instruction should not be given but that the Commonwealth was not prejudiced because “ * * * the jury was not confused as the values it determined were neither the maximum nor minimum amounts mentioned in…