John R. Taylor Co. v. North Carolina State Highway & Public Works Commission

All petitioner’s assignments of error, except formal ones and one to a ruling of the court as to the date of the taking of the land by respondent, relate to the charge of the court to the jury.

Petitioner’s assignment of error Number 2 is to this part of the charge: “Market value of property is the price which it would bring when it is 'offered for sale by one who desires to sell but is not obliged to sell it and is bought by one who is under no necessity of having it.” Petitioner contends that the learned judge omitted an essential element of market value in that he should have charged in…