Legal Opinion
Union Pacific Railroad Company v. 174 Acres of Land Located in Crittenden County, Arkansas Letitia M. Haygood
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided October 13, 1999No. 98-3871PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOKEN, Circuit Judge.
Exercising eminent domain powers conferred by Arkansas law, the Union Pacific Railroad condemned land owned by Letitia M. Haygood in Crittenden County, Arkansas. Haygood appeals the district court’s 1 judgment awarding her $872,391 as just compensation. She argues the court lacked diversity jurisdiction because the Union Pacific is a citizen of Arkansas, and the court abused its discretion by excluding a portion of her expert’s valuation testimony. We affirm.
I. Diversity Jurisdiction
The Union Pacific’s predecessor filed this diversity action to condemn land adjacent to…
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