Shaffer v. Reynoldsville Borough

Citations

• 44 Pa. Super. 1
• 1910 Pa. Super. LEXIS 112

Syllabus

<p>Evidence — Witness—Opinion of witness — Grounds for opinion — Real estate values — Road law.</p> <p>1. Where a witness properly qualified has given an opinion as to real estate values, he may be permitted to state the grounds upon which his opinion is based.</p> <p>2. In a proceeding to assess damages for injuries to land caused by the change of grade of a street, a witness may be permitted to state the cost of restoring the property to its former state of ease of access from the street, not as an independent and distinct item of damages, but as furnishing some moans to enable the jury to determine how much less the property is worth after the change of grade than it was before.</p>