Christiana v. State

The State appeals from a judgment upon an award of $141,030.40 for its appropriation for highway purposes of claimant’s 2.313-acre parcel of land in the City of Utica. The property was a large area (100,736 square feet) bounded on three sides by streets, one of which was a main thoroughfare. All of the comparables used by the appraisers for both parties, except one submitted by claimant’s appraiser, were so much smaller and of such little value and so lacking in adjustments that the court quite properly rejected them as useless in evaluating the subject property (Latham Holding Co. v. State…