DEPARTMENT OF TRANSP. v. BURNHAM

No. 821SC492.

301 S.E.2d 535 (1983)

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION v. James Waverly BURNHAM, Sr. and wife, Edith Louise White Burnham.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

April 19, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. Rufus L. Edmisten by Sp. Deputy Atty. Gen. Claude W. Harris, Asst. Attys. Gen. Robert G. Webb, Charles M. Hensey and Blackwell M. Brogden, Jr., Raleigh, for plaintiff-appellee.

LeRoy, Wells, Shaw, Hornthal & Riley by Dewey W. Wells, Elizabeth City, for defendants-appellants.


BRASWELL, Judge.

The assignments of error consist of three questions which are concerned with evidence on cross-examination, "comparable" tracts of land, and jury instructions.

Robert Ripley, an expert land appraiser for the Burnhams, the defendant-landowners, twice testified that he did not know the sales price of another tract, Camden Woods. During cross-examination when the same question was put a third time, defendants' objection was overruled, and counsel...

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