STATE BY COM'R v. Weiswasser

The opinion of the court was delivered by

HANDLER, J.

In this case, the State of New Jersey condemned a small section of a large tract of undeveloped property fronting on a major highway. As a result of the partial taking, the property owners lost their widest stretch of contiguous highway frontage.

In the course of extended settlement negotiations, prolonged pretrial proceedings, a commissioners’ hearing with an award of compensation, and pretrial motions for evidentiary rulings, the parties raised arguments over the admissibility of evidence that present issues to be determined on this appeal.…