Blick v. Ozaukee County

During the trial the plaintiff was permitted to prove the amount paid by the county to an adjacent property owner as compensation for the taking of a portion of his property for the construction of the same highway involved in these proceedings. The reception of this evidence is assigned as error.

It is settled in this state that in condemnation proceedings the amount for which lands similarly situated in the same locality have been sold, where the sales are not too remote in point of time and where all of the circumstances of the two situations are sufficiently similar in the judgment of the…