Arkansas State Highway Commission v. Bowman

Frank Holt, Justice.

Appellant brought this action to condemn .58 of an acre from appellees’ 13.5 acre tract of land. The jury fixed the appellees’ (landowners) compensation at $7,500. For reversal the highway commission first contends that the court erred in failing to strike the value testimony of the landowner Bowman. He valued his land at $15,000 per acre. He estimated his damages at $8,000 for the land taken and $7,000 to the remaining land. It is insisted that his testimony is merely an opinion of what the land was worth to him and there was no satisfactory explanation or reasonable…