Commonwealth, Department of Highways v. Hobson

CULLEN, Commissioner.

The Commonwealth of Kentucky, Department of Highways, appeals from a judgment in a highway condemnation suit awarding the landowners $3,587.50 for the taking of two acres of bottom land and two acres of hillside in Floyd County.

The judgment must be reversed for error of the trial court in refusing to admit evidence offered by the Commonwealth of the prices paid in private sales of comparable property. See Commonwealth, Department of Highways v. Shackleford, Ky., 380 S.W.2d 77, and cases therein cited. The error was prejudicial because the prices-in the comparable sales…