State ex rel. State Highway Commission v. Ankrom

GUNN, Judge.

The property owner in a condemnation proceeding raises two points of alleged trial court error in her appeal: (1) in excluding evidence of comparable land sales; (2) undue restriction in cross-examination of the State Highway Commission’s expert witness. We affirm.

The State Highway Commission condemned a portion of the appellant property owner’s farm near Bowling Green for highway purposes. The property owner called two expert witnesses to testify as to alleged comparable land sales. The first witness testified that damages for the taking were $113,805. His opinion was based on…