County of Contra Costa v. East Bay Municipal District

Action to condemn a strip of land and an adjacent easement for drainage. The sole question involved is whether it was error to permit plaintiff’s counsel, in cross-examining an expert who had testified for defendants as to the value of the property to be taken, to bring out the fact that in another ease the expert had expressed a markedly different opinion as to the value of a comparable property. We find no error.

The county sought to condemn a strip of plaintiff’s land, in fee, containing 4,972 square feet, and a drainage easement containing 3,948 square feet, both for road purposes. The…