Weber Basin Water Conservancy Dist. v. Moore

HENRIOD, Justice.

Appeal from a judgment condemning land for a dam, the plaintiff urging that there was no evidence to support the lower court’s finding as to the value of the land taken. Reversed and remanded for a new trial, with costs to plaintiff.

The record indicates that the $31,025 which the lower court found was the value of the land taken, is at least $1,800 in excess of any competent testimony given. In urging otherwise, defendants say that “a simple perusal of the transcript gives figures which the court obviously used since the result agrees to a penny with the conclusions of the…