State Road Department v. Peter

This is an appeal by the State Road Department of Florida in eminent domain proceedings in which the jury returned awards aggregating approximately $240,000.00 for twenty-six distinct parcels of land. Although the appellant sent up the entire transcript of the nine day trial, this appeal concerns only four of the parcels condemned.1

Several points have been presented, but it is necessary to discuss only one, viz., whether or not the court erred in permitting the jury to consider damages occasioned by business interruption. We find error and reverse inasmuch as the respondents laid no predicate…