Bulanek v. WesTTex 66 Pipeline Co.

In Exxon Pipeline Co. v. Zwahr, 88 S.W.3d 623, 630-31 (Tex.2002), we reversed a condemnation award, holding that the testimony of the landowners’ expert, Brad Kangieser, was irrelevant and inadmissible because he “relied on [the] condemnation in establishing a separate economic unit and in assigning a value to that unit,” and “failed to apply the before-and-after valuation method, which would have required him to evaluate the [easement] as a proportionate part of the entire [tract].” Following Zwahr, the court of appeals reversed the condemnation award in this case, which was partly based on…