State v. Long’s Empirical Analysis

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21 state decisions

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1. “"Appellant's other contention is that part of Morgan's deposition is inadmissible. Morgan concluded `that the Long property and the property known as the Ladd property, which is adjacent thereto, when together, form a prime industrial site.' The State would have us conclude that Morgan's testimony is `tantamount to testimony about a land use which is purely imaginary and based on pure speculation and conjecture.' We note that the State's argument goes to the question of whether the highest and best use of a tract of land may be based on the use the tract in association with adjacent land held by other owners, not whether the tract is capable of being an industrial site assuming the adjacent tract might be included. "The fact that the adjacent land is held in ownership by another party who may or may not want to sell is not determinative. `The fact that the most profitable use of a parcel can be made only in combination with other lands does not necessarily exclude that use from consideration if the possibility of combination is reasonably sufficient to affect market value ... In respect of each item of property that value may be deemed to be the sum which, considering all the circumstances, could have been obtained for it; that is, the amount that in all probability would have been arrived at by fair negotiations between an owner willing to sell and a purchaser desiring to buy. In making that estimate there should be taken into account all considerations that fairly might be ”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. United Gas Pipe Line Co. v. Becnel · City of Hartford v. CBV Parking Hartford, LLC

2. “[a]ny error or ground of reversal or modification of a judgment or order which was asserted in the trial court may be asserted on appeal without regard to whether such error or ground has been raised by motion in the trial court under Rule 52 (b) or Rule 59 of the ARCP.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 367 So. 2d 192 - Stephens v. Central of Georgia R. Co.