{ "id": 8723086, "name": "Arkansas Louisiana Gas Co. v. Morgan A. Maxey, et ux", "name_abbreviation": "Arkansas Louisiana Gas Co. v. Maxey", "decision_date": "1967-05-29", "docket_number": "5-4150", "first_page": "698", "last_page": "700", "citations": [ { "type": "official", "cite": "242 Ark. 698" }, { "type": "parallel", "cite": "415 S.W.2d 52" } ], "court": { "name_abbreviation": "Ark.", "id": 8808, "name": "Arkansas Supreme Court" }, "jurisdiction": { "id": 34, "name_long": "Arkansas", "name": "Ark." }, "cites_to": [ { "cite": "221 Ark. 845", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ark.", "case_ids": [ 1656469 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ark/221/0845-01" ] }, { "cite": "45 S. W. 2d 31", "category": "reporters:state_regional", "reporter": "S.W.2d", "opinion_index": 0 }, { "cite": "185 Ark. 1", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ark.", "case_ids": [ 1435329 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ark/185/0001-01" ] } ], "analysis": { "cardinality": 314, "char_count": 4156, "ocr_confidence": 0.514, "pagerank": { "raw": 1.474803707024323e-07, "percentile": 0.6599655037803362 }, "sha256": "379caa54579df40ee2bcb499a9084fc583afde573768f8504c33c6552e70558a", "simhash": "1:a3334961945ff162", "word_count": 706 }, "last_updated": "2023-07-14T15:00:12.038660+00:00", "provenance": { "date_added": "2019-08-29", "source": "Harvard", "batch": "2018" }, "casebody": { "judges": [ "Fogleman, J., disqualified." ], "parties": [ "Arkansas Louisiana Gas Co. v. Morgan A. Maxey, et ux" ], "opinions": [ { "text": "Paul Ward, Justice.\nThis is an eminent domain case.\nOn October 20, 1964 Arkansas Louisiana Gras Company (appellant) filed a complaint in circuit court to condemn a strip of land eighty feet wide across a 1,000 acre farm, owned by Morgan A. Maxey and his wife (appellees), \u201cfor the purpose of constructing, operating and maintaining\u201d a twenty-four inch pipe line. The actual land taken was 12.4 acres. On the same day the court, after taking testimony, authorized appellant to enter immediately upon the land for construction purposes. This was on condition that appellant deposit $820 in court to cover cost of land taken and any damages \u201cwhich might accrue to the premises because of the condemnation. .\nNearly a year later (after the construction was completed) appellees filed their answer, alleging that \u201cthey have suffered damages by reason of the condemnation .. . and by construction of the pipe line ... in an amount in excess of $7,500,\u201d and asking judgment for said amount.\nUpon trial the jury assessed appellees\u2019 damages at $5,500 for which amount the trial court (on April 1, 1965) entered judgment. From said judgment appellant now prosecutes this appeal for a reversal, relying on two assignments of error. '\nOne\n\u201cRestoration cost was not a proper element for the jury\u2019s consideration in arriving at the measure of damages suffered by the landowner. \u2019 \u2019\nTwo\n\u2018 There was no fair or reasonable basis for the opinion evidence given by Henry Plant or Dorothy Beck-man. \u2019 \u2019\nWe will not discuss Point Three, which challenges the amount of the verdict, because we find that the case must be reversed on other grounds.\nOne. We are unable to agree with appellant\u2019s contention that restoration cost.was not a proper element to be considered by the \u2022 jury in this case. The factual situation in this case is similar, in material respects, to that in Ross v. Clark County, 185 Ark. 1, 45 S. W. 2d 31. There the Court announced rules,to be followed on retrial which are applicable and controlling in the case here. In the cited case we said:\n\u201cIn other words, the appellant was entitled to recover the market value of all land taken, and damage done to land not actually taken ...\u201d\nSee also Arkansas Louisiana Gas Company v. Katherine E. Burkley et al, delivered by this Court May 22, 1967.\nAs will be pointed out hereafter, appellees do contend their land (not taken) was damaged and, if proven, they should recover for same.\nTwo. We have concluded, however, this ease must he reversed because improper evidence vas introduced to show damages done to the land not taken, and also as to the land take\u00bb. There are two separate,errors which call for a reversal.\nFirst, appellees attempted to prove the value of timber removed from.the land taken. This is not an element of damage under our decision in the Burkley case mentioned above wherein we held, in a case of this kind, the condemnor must pay \u201cthe- full value of land embraced within the right-of-way easement as if the fee had been taken\u201d. \"We think it must follow, therefore, that appellant will have paid for all timber on the land taken when they pay for such land.\nSecondly, without considering the, error just pointed out, the case must be reversed because of incompetent testimony introduced to prove damages to the land not taken. We deem it unnecessary to point out in detail the incompetent testimony referred to. We merely' call attention to the fact that the witnesses did not, in our judgment, qualify to give their opinions as to the damages. In the case of Arkansas Highway Commission v. Byars, 221 Ark. 845, 256 S. W. 2d we said:\n\u201cWhere a witness gives his opinion as to damages, such testimony must be considered in connection with related facts upon which the opinion is based.\u201d\nThis rule was not complied with by appellees \u2019 witnesses in this case. We call attention to the rule so that it may be followed upon a retrial.\nReversed and remanded.\nFogleman, J., disqualified.", "type": "majority", "author": "Paul Ward, Justice." } ], "attorneys": [ "Henry & Boyett and Robinson, Thornton, McCloy & Young, for appellant.", "Lightle & Tedder, for appellees." ], "corrections": "", "head_matter": "Arkansas Louisiana Gas Co. v. Morgan A. Maxey, et ux\n5-4150\n415 S. W. 2d 52\nOpinion delivered May 29, 1967\nHenry & Boyett and Robinson, Thornton, McCloy & Young, for appellant.\nLightle & Tedder, for appellees." }, "file_name": "0698-01", "first_page_order": 720, "last_page_order": 722 }