State ex rel. Missouri Highway & Transportation Commission v. Davis

GRIMM, Judge.

In this jury-tried case, Missouri Highway and Transportation Commission appeals a judgment awarding damages to defendant/landowner Estate of Churchill Carter for the condemnation of a four-acre, landlocked tract of land.

Commission raises one point on appeal. It contends that the trial court erred when it overruled its objection to expert testimony concerning (1) the possibility of obtaining legal access to this property, as well as (2) the value of the property based on the assumption that access was available. It asserts that this testimony was speculative, lacked proper…