U.S. v. 158.24 ACRES OF LAND, MORE OR LESS, ETC.

Tract No. 212. No. 81-1616.

696 F.2d 559 (1982)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. 158.24 ACRES OF LAND, MORE OR LESS, SITUATE IN ASHLEY, BRADLEY AND UNION COUNTIES, STATE OF ARKANSAS, and Dale D. Cheatham, et al., and Unknown Owners, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided December 27, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carol E. Dinkins, Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D.C., Larry R. McCord, U.S. Atty., J. Michael Fitzhugh, Asst. U.S. Atty., Fort Smith, Ark., Jacques B. Gelin, Albert M. Ferlo, Jr., Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for appellant.

Worth Camp, Jr., Mary Thomason, El Dorado, Ark., for Dale D. Cheatham.

Before HENLEY and McMILLIAN, Circuit Judges, and HUNGATE, District Judge.


HENLEY, Senior Circuit Judge.

In this eminent domain proceeding the United States has appealed a judgment of $43,200.00 entered upon a jury verdict as just compensation for the taking of 6.9 acres of land December 1, 1976, formerly belonging to appellee Dale D. Cheatham and identified here as Tract 212. The government questions admissibility of opinion evidence of the landowner's witness Crawford as being speculative and contrived from an improper method of valuation...

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