Mewes v. Crescent Pipe Line Co.

Citations

• 170 Pa. 364
• 32 A. 1082
• 1895 Pa. LEXIS 1413

Syllabus

<p>Pipe lines — -Eminent domain — Evidence—Expert witness — Competency of witness.</p> <p>A witness is competent to testify as to damages caused by the construction of a pipe line across a farm, where it appears that he lived upon an adjoining farm and knew the one in question for over fifty years, knew the character and productiveness of its soil, the kind and quality of the improvements on it, the extent and sources of its water supply, and the prices at which lands in the neighborhood were held, and the prices at which they had been sold prior to the construction of the pipe line, and up to within six months of the trial; but one who has never seen the property, nor even been in its neighborhood, and knew of but one sale in the neighborhood, is not competent for that purpose.</p>