Caffe Ribs, Incorporated v. State of Texas

This condemnation case requires, us to review the trial court’s exclusion of evidence concerning the government’s role in delaying the condemned property’s environmental cleanup prior to taking. 1 At trial, the governmeht presented " testimony that it would take eight years of cleanup to render the property marketable and that the condemned property’s value should- be Substantially discounted on that basis. ■ In rebuttal, the condemnee offered testimony from two witnesses that the government’s condemnation project delayed the property’s cleanup. However, at the government’s request, the trial…