Greider v. Elizabethtown & Florin Street Railway Co.

Citations

• 52 Pa. Super. 492
• 1913 Pa. Super. LEXIS 276

Syllabus

<p>Railroads—Condemnation—Pleadings—Damages—Expert mtnesses— Cross-examination.</p> <p>1. Where in. condemnation proceedings by a railroad, the owner of the land condemned testifies that one part of the land was especially valuable because of its peculiar adaptability for poultry raising, and that the remainder of his land was merely “farm land under cultivation,” and has introduced testimony tending to inflate the value of the whole farm because of the uses to which a limited part of it is capable of being devoted, it is not error for the trial court to permit counsel for the railroad company to cross-examine expert witnesses offered by the owner, as to the value of different parts of the land, as distinguished from each other by the uses to which they were devoted.</p> <p>2. The purpose of such cross-examination is not to vary the general rule for ascertaining the damages to the property, it is rather to enable the jury to properly estimate the weight to which the testimony of the witness is entitled.</p>