Whidden v. Division of Administration, State Department of Transportation

RAWLS, Chief Judge.

Appellants-defendants landowners appeal from a final judgment in this eminent domain action and assert as error the adequacy of the damages awarded for the property taken.

The principal questions posed relate to evidentiary rulings by the trial court in: 1) allowing appellee, Department of Transportation, to cross-examine appellant landowner, John W. Whidden, as to the purchase price paid for the parent tract in the year 1963; and 2) in permitting an expert appraiser adduced by appellant to be cross-examined as to his charging contin*420gent fees when acting as a real estate…