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WILLSEY v. KANSAS CITY POWER & LIGHT CO.

No. 51,217

6 Kan. App. 2d 599 (1981)

631 P.2d 268

DONALD F. WILLSEY and MARJORIE L. WILLSEY, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. KANSAS CITY POWER & LIGHT COMPANY, Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Kansas.

Petition for review denied September 25, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lowell L. Smithson, of Spencer, Fane, Britt & Browne, of Kansas City, Missouri, and H. Thomas Payne, of Payne & Jones, Chartered, of Olathe, for appellant.

L.D. McDonald, Jr., of McDonald & Dykes, of Overland Park, for appellees.

Before FOTH, C.J., PARKS and SWINEHART, JJ.

FOTH, C.J.:

Kansas City Power and Light Company appeals from a $39,300 judgment awarded by a jury to the landowners in an easement condemnation proceeding. The primary issue is whether the trial court erred in permitting the jury to consider expert valuation testimony based in part on the impact on market value of "buyer resistance" based on popular fear of high-voltage electric transmission lines.

Donald and Marjorie Willsey owned an undeveloped 75-acre tract...

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