Jordan v. Department of Transportation

Sognier, Judge.

Henry J. Jordan and others bring this appeal from the jury verdict awarding them the sum of $285,000 as just and adequate compensation for 7.377 acres of property condemned by the Department of Transportation.

1. Appellants contend the trial court erred by refusing to allow testimony by appellant Jordan concerning actual prior sales of property to various condemning authorities as among the factors Jordan considered in arriving at his non-expert opinion. “ ‘It is true that the courts of this state have, long held that sales of land to condemning authorities are inadmissible as…