State v. Cooper

I must disagree with the majority. While it is a well established rule in Alabama that in condemnation proceedings the “price paid by the condemnor for other lands which are to be used for the same purpose as the lands being condemned is inadmissible and its admission is reversible error,” State v. Hodge, 280 Ala. 422, 194 So.2d 827 (1967), such evidence was properly admitted in this case because it was one variable presented, among many, to show the method by which the appraiser arrived at the value of the subject property. Petersen supported his computations by discussing the values of…