State Highway Commissioner v. Goodman

(for reversal). The facts in this case are simple. The plaintiff, State highway commissioner, condemned various parcels of property belonging to the defendants for State highway purposes under the'State statute authorizing such action, being PA 1925, No 352 (CL 1948, § 213.171 et seq. [Stat Ann and Stat Ann 1955 Cum Supp § 8.171 et seq.)). In . the course of the condemnation suit before the commissioners who took the testimony, defendants employed certain witnesses to give expert testimony as to the value of their property. Subsequent thereto, on motion by defendants-appellees heroin, the…