STATE v. JETT

No. 4000.

358 S.W.2d 941 (1962)

STATE of Texas et al., Appellants, v. Barney B. JETT et al., Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Waco.

June 21, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry Wade, Dist. Atty., Dallas County, A. D. (Jim) Bowie, Don T. Cates, Emmett Colvin, Jr., Homer G. Montgomery, Ted Z. Robertson, Asst. Dist. Attys., Dallas County, Dallas, for appellants.

Alexander D. McNabb, McKool & McKool, Dallas, for appellees.


WILSON, Justice.

Condemnors in this eminent domain proceeding say the opinion testimony of their witnesses was the only admissible evidence of the market value of condemned property, and therefore the court should have instructed the jury to return a verdict for the highest value testified to by those witnesses.

The court was not authorized to instruct such a verdict. "Opinion evidence does not establish any material fact as a matter of law." Hood v. Texas...

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