Department of Highways v. Schulhoff

How courts have described this case

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• highest and best use of property was gravel mining despite land currently being vacant and undeveloped
• because cost of subdividing is speculative, cannot value property as if subdivision had been accomplished
• because cost of subdividing is speculative, cannot value property as if subdivision had been accomplished
• “any reasonable future use ... may be considered in so far only as it may assist the jury in arriving at the present market value”
• whether sales of other properties are sufficiently similar and not so far removed in time as to make any comparison unjust or impossible is question directed to trial court’s sound discretion
• speculative or prospective values are not admissible in valuation proceeding

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).