Hefty v. Wisconsin Power & Light Co.

The appellant, Wisconsin Power & Light Company, contends that the jury’s assessment of the damages, on which the judgment under review was based, is excessive; and that the jury erred in this respect as the result of prejudicial error committed by the court in ruling that J. B. Pierce, Stuart Lamb, and John Kundert were incompetent to' testify as witnesses on the trial. The record discloses that each of these witnesses, who had acted as one of the commissioners in making the award, was called by appellant for the purpose of proving by his testimony that the diminution in the value of Hefty’s…