City of Winston-Salem v. Davis

VAUGHN, Judge.

Appellants bring forward three assignments of error. Their first argument is that the trial court erred in allowing plaintiff to introduce evidence of the prior purchase price of the entire tract of property and in excluding the cost of the improvements to the property. Appellants base their argument on their contention that the condemned parcel was a portion of the entire tract of land and not a separate tract. The issue of whether the condemned land is part of a tract or a whole tract must be resolved first because it determines how damages are measured.

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