CITY OF PHOENIX v. WILSON

No. CV-00-0149-PR.

21 P.3d 388 (2001)

200 Ariz. 2

CITY OF PHOENIX, a municipal corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Jewel E. WILSON and Spouse, if Married on December 30, 1986; Stewart Allen Wilson, Trustee of the Stewart Allen Wilson Family Trust; Irvin Ivy Wilson, III, Trustee of the Irvin Ivy Wilson, III Family Trust; Catherine Louise Wilson, Trustee of the Irvin I. Wilson, Jr., Trust, Defendants-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Arizona, En Banc.

April 10, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roderick G. McDougall, Phoenix City Attorney, by William F. McDonald, Jr., Phoenix, Attorneys for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Dushoff & McCall, P.C., by Leonard M. Bell, Phoenix, Attorneys for Defendants-Appellees.


OPINION

FELDMAN, Justice.

¶ 1 In this eminent domain case, the trial judge permitted the landowners' expert witness to estimate damages based on his opinion that a portion of the original parcel had a different highest and best use from the rest. Thus, the appraiser testified, the property should be treated as two separate units before the taking, with different valuations given to the 5-acre corner, in which the parcel to be taken was located, and...

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