Department of Transportation v. Sharpe

Blackburn, Judge.

This is the second appearance of this condemnation case before this Court. In Dept. of Transp. v. Sharpe, 213 Ga. App. 549 (445 SE2d 343) (1994), we reversed the judgment entered on the jury’s verdict based upon the trial court’s erroneous instruction to the jury. The case was returned for a second trial following which the jury awarded condemnees R. G. Sharpe and Dabney Sharpe, individually and as administrators of the estate of C. W. Sharpe, $850,000 for the value of the 19.289 acres of wooded land containing limestone deposits which was condemned by the Department of…