Williams v. State Highway Department

Hall, Presiding Judge.

Two of condemnee’s enumerations of error deal with the admission of testimony which she contends concerned general benefits which would accrue to all landowners in the vicinity as a result of the public works. She contends that only special benefits may be set off against consequential damages to the remainder.

This is a correct statement of the law in its most general form. It leaves unanswered the distinction between general and special benefits and therefore the category in which the testimony fits.

When the first witness began to talk about the general improvement of…