State ex rel. Missouri Highway & Transportation Commission v. Kuhlmann

SMITH, Presiding Judge.

Landowner appeals from a jury verdict and resultant judgment in this condemnation case. The Commissioners’ award was for $200,000; the jury awarded damages of $120,000 for the partial taking of landowner’s property. That verdict was within the range of damages established by the evidence. We affirm.

Landowner premises error on a number of evidentiary rulings by the trial court. First he asserts as error the refusal of the trial court to allow one Gaffney to express an opinion of the fair market value of the land taken before and after the condemnation. Gaffney was the…