Osborne v. Hurst

How courts have described this case

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• requiring cost of repair to be reasonable in light of diminution in market value
• requiring cost of repair to be reasonable in light of diminution in market value
• “[L]andowners should not be forced either to sell property they wish to keep or to make repairs partly out of their own pockets.”
• “[LJandowners should not be forced either to sell property they wish to keep or to make repairs partly out of their own pockets.”
• \[the true criterion [for determining whether a person qualifies as an expert witness] is whether the jury can receive appreciable help from this particular person on this particular subject\
• “The purpose for limiting an award to those costs that have been or may be reasonably incurred appears to be a desire to reduce the economic waste that occurs when a party incurs repair costs in excess of the diminished value of the property.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).