Ark. State Highway Comm. v. Johns

In this eminent domain proceeding the appellant seeks to acquire about half of a twelve-acre tract owned by the appellees. The circuit court, sitting without a jury, awarded the landowners $3,500 as compensation for the property being taken. For reversal the appellant contends that the court erred in refusing to strike the testimony of certain witnesses for the landowners.

Two of the witnesses, Bob Geliy and Joe Snelly, were real estate dealers in Crawford county. After having-first stated that they were familiar with land values in the vicinity of the Johns property and that they had…